"Forget “jobs for the boys”. Women bosses are significantly more likely than men to discriminate against female employees, research has suggested.
The study found that when presented with applications for promotion, women were more likely than men to assess the female candidate as less qualified than the male one.
They were also prone to mark down women’s prospects for promotion and to assess them as more controlling than men in their management style.
The findings, based on experiments carried out among more than 700 people, suggest that the “queen bee syndrome” of female rivalry in the workplace may sometimes be as important as sexism in holding back women’s careers."
This "interesting" report, on Timesonline, will doubtlessly cause a stir and considerable debate. Weigh in by all means.
The study found that when presented with applications for promotion, women were more likely than men to assess the female candidate as less qualified than the male one.
They were also prone to mark down women’s prospects for promotion and to assess them as more controlling than men in their management style.
The findings, based on experiments carried out among more than 700 people, suggest that the “queen bee syndrome” of female rivalry in the workplace may sometimes be as important as sexism in holding back women’s careers."
This "interesting" report, on Timesonline, will doubtlessly cause a stir and considerable debate. Weigh in by all means.
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I worked in a software developer company 1993 in William St Melbourne and the Operations Manager reported to me that he had just overheard the CEO's secretary claim to him that one of her own mistakes was made by me.
She was a Chinese Malaysian Fundamentalist Christian to boot.
her husband was the company accountant and both of them were unbelievably cruel to the Chinese female book-keeper.
They had headhunted me from a firm which was their own client, and I forced myself to outlast all previous holders of my position. 20 people quit that I witnessed. ogh don't get me started.