Beware the Queen Bee Boss - She's Hell to Work for (and I Should Know, I Was One!) [Eire Region]
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THEY call it the Queen Bee Syndrome and the sting in it is that it punctures a great feminist myth. For years the sisterhood has moaned that if only more women could smash through that glass ceiling, if only more women got the top jobs and if only we all had women bosses, our working environment would be a far warmer, caring, sharing place to be.
Now a university study finally proves that the opposite is true. In fact, women who work for other women suffer more from both psychological and physical ailments -- depression, insomnia and headaches among them -- and are more likely to end up embroiled in workplace conflict.See the full content of this document
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Beware the Queen Bee Boss - She's Hell to Work for (and I Should Know, I Was One!) [Eire Region]
None of this, I have to say, is news to me.
I have worked for many women (though rarely happily) and I have had many women work for me (probably ditto).In magazine journalism and in television -- my two old stomping grounds of relative power -- it is more usual than in many trades for a woman to be in charge and, in most cases...See the full content of this document
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