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A post from DoubleX Staff:
It depends on the size of the workplace. At a small office where I once
worked, the gossip was like family gossip. It was all viciously
intimate but assumed a great amount of unspoken connection and
affection. At a bigger office where I once worked, gossip seemed more
like a management tool to organize individuals. Everyone had a
reputation, a two-sentence summary of their personality and work
habits. That characterization stuck no matter what. It was often not
true and never very interesting, but it could always be used against
you ... (Read the rest of this article in DoubleX.)
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Vanessa, I agree that we don't gain much by adding the office bitch stereotype to the working woman's repertoire. And like you and lawyer-mom, one of our first commenters, who writes astutely
about her bullying female boss, I also have a story of an older and
more experienced woman who put me down rather than pulled me up. I
wonder, though... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website at DoubleX.com!)
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A guest post from Double X writer Vanessa M. Gezari:
I get what you say,
Meghan, about the benefits of broadening the range of publicly-noted
female roles beyond those old standbys, “nurturer” and “supporter.” But
I can’t share your pleasure in the finding that... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website at doublex.com!)
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