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We talk a lot about women supporting women. The dirty little not-so-secret is that women also sometimes undercut other women and sabotage their careers. The less we talk about it, the more it will continue happening.
Dr. Barbara Brock, professor of education at Creighton University in Omaha NE, never planned to study this topic. It emerged from her research for a forthcoming book with Dr. Marilyn Grady on principals dealing with difficult teachers. She noticed that women's responses were different from men's.
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Emotional overtones marked women principals' accounts of women teachers whom they found difficult. Brock began ...