From Association for Women in Science Washington Wire

[eridani]

Office queen bees hold back women’s careers

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2524299.html

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.

[Morgana LaFey]

1. Yeah. We knew about Queen Bees way back in the 70s.

Republican types, I'd say: "I've got mine, who cares about you?"

It's not just greed, it's fear. They're too fearful that what little they've got can be lost. It's a real shame.

It's also part of our cultural conditioning that we have to compete with one another, we women. That, of course, was based on the need to attract, win and "keep" the best, most eligible bachelors because not many careers were open to us, and certainly not the lucrative ones.

Bah.

But there's much less reason for it now. In fact, I'd argue that it's counterproductive. Of course, the Phyllis Shlaflys and Anne Coulters and other wingnut women can't admit that.