According to an article on The Huffington Post Canada blog, a recent survey from the Workplace Bullying Institute revealed that female office bullies target other women more than 70 per cent of the time. The article also refers to research by Olin’s Michelle Duguid who found that most top female brass discourage new women employees for two main reasons: they feel threatened in their role as the token smart women or fear the new hire will act stupidly and make them look bad.

Read a summary of Prof. Duguid’s research paper, “Female Tokens in High-Prestige Work Groups: Catalysts or Inhibitors of Group Diversification?” in Olin Praxis here.