What do Mary, Queen of Scots, Deborah Norville, Newt Gingrich's mother, Mary Jo
Buttafuoco, Nancy Kerrigan, Hillary Clinton and Monica Lewinsky all have in common? They
were all backstabbed by other women.
Judith Briles' controversial groundbreaking study of sabotage among women in the
workplace engendered widespread disbelief and denial when it first appeared a decade ago.
But one exposed, the problem of women undermining and betraying other women-for
professional and personal gain-has been acknowledged by more and more women.
Shockingly, Briles' new study reveals that the problem is now 45% worse: workplaces are
filled with Linda Tripp types who gain your confidence then trash it, toxic bosses who
thrive on taking credit from the women who work for them, and co-workers who undermine
their sisters work.
In Woman to Woman 2000, Briles examines the reasons for this increased sabotage. She
looks at the ways in which traditional male rules of the workplace environment over the
last ten years have shaped this type of behavior as women have risen up the corporate
ranks and competition for jobs has grown fierce. Briles also exposes the ways in which
sabotage can permeate non-corporate realms such as: politics, the media, education,
women's networks, healthcare, community activities, relationships, family and even the
individual in the form of self sabotage.
Promoting awareness of the problem, she instructs women on how to identify and
understand sabotaging behavior of others by learning the unwritten rules of the workplace
and forming a new kind of workplace team. Briles, in the essential handbook, shows how
women can combat destructive behavior, succeed on their won terms and forge new supportive
bonds with each other at work and in all aspects of their lives as a new century dawns.
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