Women Are Mean to Each Other — Or So We Are Told
The initial research for our book It’s Not You, It’s the Workplace was focused on why women so often report they are dissatisfied with their same-gender workplace relationships. We began by digging into the raft of popular “self-help” books that argue that women have frequent workplace conflicts with other women because they are fundamentally antagonistic to one another. The books in this genre paint an ugly picture of women’s basic nature: Mean Girls at Work; Working with Bitches; Woman’s Inhumanity...
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