The last company I worked at hard a woman CEO, and she was an absolute NIGHTMARE to work with (as were the other two women I had worked under in the past).
This is hardly something that can be attributed to women though. One of the most basic reasons that this happens (because you're right, research does show female managers tend to be more likely to be overbearing) is a fault of society. Women have only recently been welcomed, and in many cases are still not, into the folds of upper management. The fact that many women managers at the top levels are overbearing is a product of the fact that in the past and now even still it takes an extremely headstrong and determined woman to make it there. Thus, only the women who have the "to hell with you all, I'm going to do it" attitude make it there. The women at the top levels of corporations today are super type A personalities who want everything their way. This is society's fault.
