Why Do Women Intimidate Other Women at Work?
Why Are We Fighting Each Other Anyway?
Three hundred candidates for one leadership position. Only one woman will be chosen. The other 299 will return to their desks, swallowing the frustration of another defeat in a rigged game.
Welcome to the female corporate world, where we’ve learned to tear each other down while the patriarchy watches comfortably.
The numbers are brutal: only 8.8% of Fortune 500 CEOs are women. And guess what? Instead of joining forces against this absurdity, we turn our claws on each other. The Workplace Bullying Institute revealed that 80% of women are bullied by other women at work.
They call it Queen Bee Syndrome — that leader who deliberately sabotages other women. But let’s be honest: it’s not a syndrome. It’s pure, raw fear. Fear of losing the hard-won position, fear of being replaced, fear of becoming irrelevant.
Toxic behavior takes predictable forms: manipulation (72%), daily humiliation (67%), obsessive micromanagement (62%). These seem like cold…
