[patsylimerick]

Originally Posted by Zippy

because you can't use your feminine charms(subtle or otherwise) on other women. I think in a business enviroment women are more competitive with each other than they would be with a man. Its a more complicated dynamic.

depends what business, of course. But in a generally male dominated domain certainly.

*ducks*

I think you're completely right. I've worked under a few males and one female in particular who specialised in their own various brands of obnoxious, but the woman was the one I could not abide. And it is absolutely because the sexual dynamic - benign as it may be - was absent. I've also been the boss; and I know that while I was respected, they also thought I was a demanding ould bitch at times. It's definitely the case that assertiveness is more admired in men and more frowned upon in women - by both men and women.