Posted on 01/02/2007 4:50:49 AM PST by shrinkermd
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.
“Female and older participants showed more prejudice against the (idea of a) female leader than did male and younger participants,” said Rocio Garcia-Retamero, a psychologist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin and lead author of the report.
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No man could say that.
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This compels the casual observer to want to ask, why?
Women like strong men. No surprise here.
It adds: “Female participants predicted that the male candidate would show a more laissez-faire leadership style than the female candidate would.”
I've worked in women-dominated workplaces much of my adult life. Many more women than men have been micromanagers, or, to put it more tastelessly, control freaks. A fair number of the men I've worked with have simply allowed me to do my job and trusted that I would do it well. A fair number of the women I've worked with have excelled in manipulation and office politics.
Katherine Rake, director of the Fawcett Society which campaigns for sexual equality, said stereotyping was more important than female rivalry in holding back women’s careers: “Stereotypes about what is an appropriate role for women are still very strong in people’s minds and there is still a cultural barrier to women making it into senior positions.”
Feminists are clueless about human nature. No surprises here, either.
My head hurts trying to follow the logic of this study & this article.
Seems to me if the study really proves that most women in management positions discriminate on the basis of perceived competitiveness, then those women must be making the correct decisions when they refuse to promote other women, who are in turn more likely to be poor managers as well..
I mean, they KNOW that a majority of women tend to be poor decision makers because THEY are poor decision makers.
Or is the study concluding that most women managers are making POOR decisions about other women when they conclude they would be poor managers even though most women managers are making poor decisions because of competitiveness?
See what I mean? My head hurts.
Hmmm
I don't know about females holding back females but the queen bee syndrome and female rivalry in the workplace is rampant and very obvious. Females spend much of their time watching other females, males like to watch the females too.
My experience in the workforce compel me to agree with every word in your post...and I'm a woman.
Totally nailed it.
My last and my current manager were (are) women. The current one is just awesome; VERY bright, attractive, supportive, aggressive (in the right way), personable.....the whole package.
The last one.........ummmm..............let's just say I'm glad she moved on.
Sometimes men managers think with the "wrong head." They find the female candidate to be more "qualified" because she is good looking and flirts with them. She is promoted over the male with far more applicable experience and more approprite temperament for the job. Just happened where I work. Major mistake.
Female managers come in all types, just as males do. Some are micro-managers, others more laid back. But often females become more micro-managers because male bosses tend to hold their feet to the fire and "beat up" on them verbally when their subordinates mess up.
As a female boss, I'm pretty laid back, and all my employees are female. But then again, I'm very close to retirement eligble.
My office queen bee prefers to promote women over men. At one point in time she was discriminated against by a white male.
I'm a man and I've said it many times. That's why most career women prefer to work for men.
Can I believe that one!!! I had a female boss at one time and it was the most miserable time of my employment. Everything I did was *usurping* her authority. If I made decisions while she was on vacation, I was usurping her authority; if I didn't I wasn't showing enough initiative and ambition, which was used against me at promotion time. I just couldn't win. A female with an agenda can be the nastiest creature around.
No surprises, to me.
An old teacher had this sitting on her desk.
"The best man for a job is usually a woman."
I've had my fair share of queen bees.
Very nasty, controlling, backstabbing people.
I think it is just plain old female competitiveness, or the old fashion words were jealousy and envy!
I love it! If a man does a certain thing it's SEXISM (he's probably a cruel, evil, mean spirited REPUBLICAN), but when a WOMAN commits the same act, it needs a different (and, note, less damning) name. The libs have finally gone completely wacko.
I have worked for both men and women. I can tell you that hands down I would rather work for a man than a woman.
It has nothing to do with capability. It has to do with micromanagement and the way MOST women deal with other human beings.
This is a gross generalization, and there are, of course, exceptions to the rule.
I've worked in women-dominated workplaces much of my adult life. Many more women than men have been micromanagers, or, to put it more tastelessly, control freaks. A fair number of the men I've worked with have simply allowed me to do my job and trusted that I would do it well. A fair number of the women I've worked with have excelled in manipulation and office politics.
Hit the nail on the head. I think micromanagement/need for absolute control is not overstating the case.
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