From: LiveScience
‘Queen Bee’ Bosses Often Victims of Sexist Workplace
June 21, 2011
LiveScience:
Some female bosses get a bad rap for their “queen bee” behaviors, including the cold shoulder they give to other women in the office. But new research suggests we should blame the sexist work environment, not the bosses themselves, for the behavior.
To determine whether queen bee behavior is actually a response to a difficult, male-dominated environment, researchers at the Leiden University in the Netherlands gave an online questionnaire to 63 senior women working at police departments in three Dutch cities. First, all of the women were asked questions was about how important their gender identity was at work, including how much they identified with other women in the police force.
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Hello,
Please could you tell me did the authors develop the questionnaire or did they use a pre existing one?
Thanks
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