Monday, January 12, 2009

Women: Their Own Worst Enemies at Work

If you're a woman with a female co-worker who's a bully, watch your back, sister.

A recent study by the Workplace Bullying Institute examining office behaviors — like verbal abuse, job sabotage, misuse of authority and destroying of relationships — found that female bullies aim at other women more than 70 percent of the time.

Bullies who are men, by contrast, tend to be equal-opportunity tormentors when it comes to the gender of their target.

Read more in the New York Times.