And if you are a woman and happen to have a female co-worker who is a bully, watch out. A recent study by the Workplace Bullying Institute examining office behaviors — like verbal abuse, job sabotage, misuse of authority and destroying of relationships — found that female bullies aim at other women more than 70 percent of the time. Bullies who are men, by contrast, tend to be equal-opportunity tormentors when it comes to the gender of their target.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Why women don't support one another
Read Peggy Klaus's piece in the New York Times. Here's a fascinating--if discouraging--excerpt.
Labels:
discrimination,
emotion,
employment,
solidarity among women
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