What’s harder for young women: working with men or working for a woman?
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Totally by coincidence, I found two articles in the last couple of days about women in the workplace — and they couldn’t be more different. Cha-ching! Great blog material.
I was leafing through Marie Claire — don’t judge me, it actually does have interesting articles in between the glossy blurbs about flouncy clothes and accessories I can’t afford.
This intriguing story asks: why do ambitious young women say they hate working for other women? Turns out female bosses are either too chummy or too catty. Shocker. Makes me think the two extremes of how Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton have been portrayed.
On the flip side, an article in the Wall Street Journal offers tips — condescendingly I might add — for women to “fit in” a dude-dominated office. How about identifying “alpha and beta males” so you can mold your language accordingly when addressing them? Seriously? Are we in the jungle?
Oh yeah, ladies, and don’t forget to throw back a beer with your male co-workers every now and then, but whatever you do, don’t offer to get the coffee for meetings. You’ll make Susie Anthony roll over in her grave.
I’ll let you be the judge on this one.
(AP Photo/Tom Uhlman)
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