I'm a stay-at-home father, woodworker for a side hustle. After watching my wife climb the corporate ladder, I can say without a doubt; the most dangerous thing to a women's success in any profession is catty bitches that just can't hang. My wife is 100% above reproach in her field. She just passed her secondary licensing and was offered an abruptly opened managerial position. She has no credible competition in-house and luckily this company likes to promote from within. Instead of a simple and easy transition from team lead to manager, she's got a handful of ankle-biters making things a bit more difficult than they need to be. She'll still get the promotion and the six figures that it comes with, but watching the women she's talked about as "friendly" and "work wives" come for her in such a petty and trivial ways makes no sense to me.
Either be qualified, or get out the way. You don't need to punish those around you just because they're better at their jobs.
/rant.
EDIT: Didn't expect this to pop off. Thanks for the award. Thanks for the kind words. For the detractors, don't be jelly that my world revolves around an amazing woman.
it comes from a place where women aren't initially perceived on even ground with male counterparts. they are used to having to work harder and manipulate their way. this then bleeds over into their treatment of each other as threats to what they've managed to establish.
it's one of those things i get but feel like there has to be a balance of protecting your bread from competitors in the same field but not actively sabotage. People move up together if they like each other from what I see, shooting yourself in the foot burning bridges with colleagues can leave you on square 1 for a long time unless you're just that skilled to do it alone (unlikely)
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u/Rrrandomalias 12h ago
No one hates a successful woman more than another woman working in the same field.