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.
I think it's trying to say that some women tend to discriminate against other women purely because they want keep their rivals at bay. Not because they're making 'poor' decisions per se, but because they're making them based more on emotion than anything else. Which some would probably say makes them poor by definition, but there are plenty of men who also do that. Also, men are more competitive with each other than probably any other creatures on the planet. So, I don't know. Forget I said anything. :)