Posted on 03/03/2018 10:00:08 AM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
The 'queen bee' syndrome makes some females target other women in order to climb the ladder, research has found.
A team at the University of Arizona questioned men and women about 'incivility' they experienced during a one-month period.
Women consistently reported higher levels of incivility from other women than their male counterparts, the research, which was published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, found.
Queen bee syndrome was first defined in psychological studies in the early 1970s.
It manifests itself in women disparaging feminine traits, harsher criticism of other women and failing to support gender inequality measures.
Assistant professor of management at Arizona University, Allison Gabriel, told The Times studies had shown that women experienced more problems at work than men.
'In other words, women are ruder to each other than they are to men, or than men are to women,' she said.
'This isn't to say men were off the hook or they weren't engaging in these behaviours but when we compared the average levels of incivility reported, female-instigated incivility was reported more often than male-instigated incivility by women.'
In the study, participants were asked about colleagues who put them down or were condescending, made derogatory remarks, ignored them in a meeting or addressed them unprofessionally.
Each set of questions was answered twice, once for male colleagues and once for females.
'Making workplace interactions more positive and supportive for employees can go a long way toward creating a more positive, healthier environment that helps sustain the company,' Dr Gabriel said.
She added that companies face a higher risk of losing women staff who suffer female instigated rudeness.
A Gallup survey in 2017 found nearly 40 per cent of female workers in America would rather be led by a man, the survey found.
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Women are quite different from men.
One or the other may not be entirely human. I guess it depends on who you ask.
Holy hell, not just the workplace. This queen bee sh*t starts in preschool. I am embarrassed for my gender. It is a genetic thing with girls. I’ve seen it happen too young to have been learned from mom. Mean girls, controlling little witches... where do girls get off with the whole social do the other girl in thing? Boys and men don’t have this. I don’t have it either. Thank goodness neither does my little girl. But it’s happened to her. “You can’t play with us. Only x, y, and z can play.” What is up with this shoot?
Naw.....Hoodathunkit??
According to feminists, all women are united in one world sisterhood to resist male oppression./s
>>This is true, I’ve seen it a lot.
Very true. Most of my life, I’ve been sheltered from working around Queen Bees (and I think the Bee is really an initial) because I’ve worked out in production areas of factories and utility companies. But for the last 5 years or so, I’ve been in the office areas and women make me thankful that I’m not a woman. They are horrible to each other.
I’ve been in IT since 1983. Half my career has been contracting so I’ve worked with 17 companies so far.
Back around the turn of the century I started looking for what I called, way back then, the office “queen bee” every time I got a new contract.
Everywhere I worked had one, including where I currently work. :)
The end.
Most women who experience backstabbing from other women in the workplace are very eager to work with men.
I went to school with a lot of rich kids. In rich families, the boys act like this, too. I agree, it’s a bunch of crap. No problem, anybody that won’t accept me until my dad makes his 3rd million is no friend of mine.
Cruel is the word. They inflict emotional pain, destroy careers, and are never the subject of a “me too” hash tag.
I had a boss like this. She promoted one of her little brain-dead minions over a woman that was really good and the boss tried to burn me because one of her spies overheard me saying that it was wrong. I tried to go work in a different division and she stopped my lateral move. My work lead overheard her say that she didn’t want me to leave, she wanted to keep me in her division and drive me to suicide. I successfully moved over when I talked to my prospective division VP, he talked to her, and she admitted that she said it. Soon after, she was fired when an audit of her travel spending found a lot of abuses. HR also found violations of personnel regulations, some things were outright violations of the law. I’m so glad that psycho is gone.
Boys do it too, but it’s slightly different. It’s more about excluding one “othered” type of person from a group. By creating an outcast as an object lesson and example to the other members of the group, a leader creates a system of rewards for obedience and a warning not to stray from the authority of the leader, lest one become an outcast.
But in both cases it’s about a morally damaged and insecure individual creating a social system with themselves in a position of power.
Any liberal who says women are kinder and gentler than men is either lying or deliberately ignorant.
The “mommy” wars are proof of that. Women get bullied for not breastfeeding, regardless of the reason, whether or not they work full time.
Stay at home mothers and working mothers often berate each other and slander with broad brushes. For the years I worked part time with kids, I was criticized by BOTH groups.
Social justice bullies have adopted the feminine tactic of reputation demolition.
They didn’t HIT you, but they told lies about you and alienated you from all your friends, isolated you, abused you, made even adults and strangers distrust you, all as an act of power and domination.
But it wasn’t “violence” so it isn’t considered bad or even bullying by many people.
Even when liberal digital lynch mobs have 10000 strangers ruin your social life online and attack friends and family in the high tech version of that middle school cruelty.
I was senior partner in my small law office for several years. I’m pretty sure I was easy to work for. Oh, female here, ow retired.
Sounds like Hillary.
Sounds like Hillary.
And here I’ve been calling them “witches” all my career. I have worked with almost exclusively women and almost exclusively men. I’ll take working with men any day.
Me, too. My boss before last was a woman and probably the BEST boss I ever had. She was fantastic. Always complimentary, set good goals, ran interference when required, just a real pleasant and happy person to work for.
Then I went to my last company and had another woman boss. HER boss was a woman. Most horrible, tyrannical, unpleasant, rottenest people I’ve worked for. I had to go back to a rotten high school summer job to find a worse boss. Lots of people have told me about female execs acting this way. It is not pleasant. I lasted six months before I’d had enough.
I’ve had 2 women bosses. Watch your back that’s for sure.
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