Females opinions on this

I've never heard that before. Did she say how the insecurities manifested? I'm kind of curious.

That mean girl stuff never completely goes away but I'd say the ones offended have pretty low self-esteem. I would definitely say they are in the minority.

"Offended"?? That's such a weird choice of words.
No, I have never felt this way. I work in a very male-dominated field, so whenever a woman interviews or is hired, I'm pretty stoked to see a little more diversity.

deluxmary2000 wrote: »

"Offended"?? That's such a weird choice of words.
No, I have never felt this way. I work in a very male-dominated field, so whenever a woman interviews or is hired, I'm pretty stoked to see a little more diversity.

This is how I always felt. I just left my job last month and now I'm only around other moms, but for 18 years I worked with men with an occasional woman here or there.

Haven't experienced this personally, have always gotten along well with female coworkers. I work mostly with men in IT and sadly don't generally have as many women in this particular field. But I think it depends.
Some women are territorial because they feel they've been taught to be tough in the workforce to "be like a man" and feel as if roles for women in a business are few enough as it is....
Some women would be bitchy if the candidate was attractive (jealous, insecure, catty, judgmental) but wouldn't care if the candidate was not as attractive.

I currently have a fantastic (female) boss.

bishes don't like other bishes stepping on their territory.

Again you can't paint everyone with the same brush, but in my experience many women are more competitive, not just in business, but in general, which i think does go back to their own insecurities.

I've noticed that the higher I go in position, the bishier the other women get. Probably because it's still somewhat unusual to find a woman in the executive group in this male dominated industry and the idea of being the only woman is kinda empowering. Don't want another alpha bish in the pack!!

Some women yes. Its a territory thing to some. I don't think its offended or insecurities. Just a territory thing.

ninerbuff wrote: »

I believe she also said that if a female wanted another female out of the company, she would covertly go about doing it.

In my opinion experience it wasn't done covertly and was a very expensive mistake for the company.

ninerbuff wrote: »

So I was listening to KGO (talk radio) and a business woman named Heather Monahan was the guest. And one of the things she said was that in the professional world, if a female goes into an interview at a company, men will be curious about her, but females will be offended by her. I'm like really?
Do women really feel some sense of insecurity when another female may be added to the professional staff?
Again this was her view as a business entrpeneur and coaching females for interviews.

Some people are naturally insecure and others are bi@tches. Regardless of their roles.

The woman is entitled to her opinion but, on the understanding this isn't a 'one off' then as she isn't sitting in the interviews then it's not actually an informed opinion ...

Women in the workplace can be downright evil. I worked in a group of ~20 where 17 of us were women--the backstabbing/cattiness was unbelievable. I now work in a small group (5) with 3 men and another woman--so much happier now!

138shades wrote: »

I tend to be the only guy working in my departments etc............it a strain listening to women talk about each other all the time.

I know those feels

Social acceptability is overrated