How to deal with a difficult supervisor?

My supervisor is a short-tempered and impatient women and I always got yelled for very Insignificant things, which are not even mistakes. She wants everything to be done fast, like next day even if that’s not urgent, or I would get yelled. She likes to make assumption and judged me based on that. One time she wrote a program using VBA and for some reason that doesn’t work, I asked her to take a look at it. She assumed that I’ve must done something intentionally to make it not working. (There is no way i can edit the code because I’m not permitted to based on the setting.) I didn’t know what to answer her because it’s too ridiculous for me.One time I got humiliated by her in front of all the coworkers because I couldn’t login a software, I emailed to IT department, they told me to contact a guy to give me permission, I didn’t know who that is (it was my second week here) so I forwarded the email conversation to my supervisor and wanted to ask her who that is and what is the procedure to claim my login info after she went back from lunch. I didn’t write anything in the forward email because I prefer to just ask her in person, she just sat next to me. That probably caused some misunderstanding. (Thinking back it seems not very appropriated)I forwarded because I want her to see the what I asked and what IT person responded. When she saw the email, she just lost her mind and got so mad because she assumed me pushing her to solve the problem for me before she said anything to me and before I opened my mouth and yelled at me” who do you think you are that I have to solve it for you? do you think you are even important this place? Let me tell you, you are not even important!” When I tried to explain, she wouldn’t let me and kept on saying “ Don’t explain. Just don’t explain.” It was very embarrassing and traumatized. Everyone was looking at me. I got scared to report work sometimes because i could be yelled anytime. I’m a girl too not sure if woman is not nice to women at workplace. But again, I’m fear to go to work. I’m looking for new roles but it takes time... in the mean time, any suggestion?

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