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- There are more than 58 million women in the workforce; over 40 million are full time.
- Sabotage among women costs American businesses $39 billion a year.
- 75% of working women report that they have been undermined by a co-worker or supervisor.
- Over 87% of the victims reported that the sabotage was intentional.
- Over 33% of the women surveyed reported that they preferred not working with other
women.
- Women are more inclined to be covert vs. men being overt in their sabotaging styles.
- Change—both downsizing and expansion—enhances a saboteur’s environment.
- Women engage in gender harassment.; Men don’t discriminate; women do. Women are
more inclined to undermine their own gender; men have no preference in who they undermine.
- Saboteurs are often insecure, of low self-confidence and emulate the bully mentality.
They focus their energy and actions at individuals they perceive to have less confidence
and power than they do.
- Saboteurs is not exclusive to any environment, income range or race. It permeates
corporate and entrepreneurial sectors.
- Women practice a conspiracy of silence. Their silence gives permission to the saboteur
to continue the offensive behavior.
- Sabotage is not genetic; it is a learned behavior.
- Do women support other women?—yes, but not all women do.
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Publicly exposed acts of betrayal, like those perpetrated by Washington informant Linda
Tripp toward Monica Lewinsky, Olympic skater Tonya Harding toward Nancy Kerrigan and
newscaster Connie Chung toward Newt Gingrich’s mother Kathleen Gingrich represent
just the tip of a deep-seated infectious situation that many women encounter everyday.
Today's most visible saboteur and betrayer is Linda Tripp. The Linda Tripps permeate every
workplace, association and community. They continue to poison the well with their
sabotaging and manipulative behavior. As the author of four national studies and published
books on this topic, Dr. Judith Briles knows why and how women sabotage other women.
Although sabotage is not exclusive to women, it is exclusive in its targets and methods
when women are the players. Women are more inclined to be covert (tape recording is a
technique) and discriminating (targets of women are usually other women) In contrast, men
don't care which gender they undermine and are more likely to be blatant and overt when
they do it.
In Dr. Briles' newest book, WOMAN TO WOMAN 2000: Becoming Sabotage Savvy in the New
Millennium (New Horizon Press, 1999), she reveals in her groundbreaking study that being
sabotaged by a co-worker was identified as the third biggest problem women are
encountering in today's work place—way ahead of complaints about sexual harassment
and the glass ceiling.
The work place is woven with saboteurs. During the past ten years, Dr. Briles has spoken
with nearly half a million women about the insidious problem of sabotage and betrayal. Her
first book on the topic was the Chicago Tribune’s business book of the year in 1987.
According to her, “Women of all ages must learn to recognize saboteurs, confront them
and then dump them. There is a huge difference between friendliness and friendship. Men
know it, women need to learn it. Not every woman lands on the front page or on 60 Minutes
when
she has been set up, but her feelings of personal betrayal are no less devastating.”
WOMAN TO WOMAN 2000 is an invaluable catalyst for change in today’s workplace and
beyond. It is an essential handbook for every woman who faces saboteurs—at work and
at home. Dr. Briles is an award winning author and speaker and is available for media
interviews. She resides in the Denver, Colorado.
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The 1990s corporate phenomena of downsizing and the fierce competition for jobs (both
over and under the glass ceiling) have made women more competitive with each other. With
the number of women experiencing sabotage by other women increasing 45% over the last ten
years, sabotage has become the third-ranking workplace problem. Woman to Woman 2000
squarely addresses the issue of sabotage as it is utilized by and against women through
society. While sabotage is not gender-conscious, women are more inclined to be covert
and discriminatory, whereas men undermine associates based on status rather than gender,
and are more likely to be blatant and overt in their methods.
Woman to Woman 2000 is exceptionally well documented and articulately written resulting
in a “must read” contribution for all women in the workplace at what ever level
of worker or managerial responsibility they may have.
---Midwest Book Review, January 1999
Books of the sorority of women make wonderful gifts and spread warm, fuzzy feelings
throughout the sisterhood. But the holidays are over. It's time for reality and Denverite
Judith Briles' newest book on women sabotaging women.
The author's message rises from more than 10 years of research in workplace issues, yet
it's been hesitantly received. Women don't want to hear that other women (it's never
themselves) tend not to support their female counterparts. But chapter by chapter, Briles
detail real cases of the country's Linda Tripps in action.
The root of the problem is two-fold. Women aren't raised with a healthy sense of
competition so they learn discreet, yet very effective ways of undermining each other,
Briles writes. Secondly, more women still suffer diminished self-esteem. "Self-esteem
is perhaps the single more important requirement of success. But it's not that easy for
women to achieve. It is simply a fact that in most of the world's societies, women hold at
best a second place position to men and consequently do not develop a strong sense of
self-worth. And, this lack of self-esteem does not stop with our view of ourselves, but
necessarily extends to our view of our sisters."
Any woman who ever has worked for or will work with another woman should read this book
and take Briles' message to heart.
---Rocky Mountain News, January 17, 1999
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