Another year, Another Claim Of Female Infighting In The Workplace

Sometime near the start of the 21st Century, I stopped paying attention to all those studies that purport that women don't like working for other women.

It's not that I don't think that there are some horrid female bosses. I know there are. It's just that I don't think that the behaviors of male bosses have been as scrutinized or dissected. I think we tolerate a lot of bad male boss behavior that women don't get a pass on.

What we have here is  a self-fulling prophecy. Women have been set up to anticipate that their female boss will be jealous/catty/un-supportive/a frenemy/competitive/mean/backstabbing/ add your unattractive female characteristic.

Tell someone often enough that a situation is going to happen a certain way and that's how the person perceives the experience.

More on this, at my blog post on BlogHer  Isn't It Time We Set Aside The Childish Notion That Women In The Workplace Can't Get Along?

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