{"id":709,"date":"2015-05-28T09:00:15","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T13:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/annelitwin.com\/?p=709"},"modified":"2015-05-28T09:00:15","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T13:00:15","slug":"career-aggression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/blog-posts\/career-aggression\/","title":{"rendered":"Career Aggression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[Career aggression is behavior that includes indirect aggression but moves\u00a0beyond hurtful behaviors to actions intended to damage or sabotage the\u00a0careers of other women (see the table below).\nSome of the examples in the previous section on indirect aggression\u00a0had the potential to damage careers, but the cases that follow show an\u00a0intent to do career damage that is unmistakable. The parallel concept in\u00a0the adolescent-girl literature is \u201csocial aggression,\u201d where the intention\u00a0is to undermine a girl\u2019s credibility and reputation with others. Half\u00a0the women interviewed for this research reported experiencing career\u00a0aggression from a woman at work, sometimes by a woman they knew\u00a0and sometimes by someone they weren\u2019t acquainted with at all.\nBefore I share examples of career aggression, I want to acknowledge\u00a0my concerns as a feminist about reinforcing the worst negative stereotypes\u00a0about women. Let me reiterate that women can and do have solid, stable,\u00a0and supportive relationships with other women colleagues, which was\u00a0often stressed by the women in this research. It is also true that men\u00a0sabotage each other\u2019s careers. The significance here for women is that\u00a0in the midst of all the challenges we encounter in organizations because\u00a0of gender biases and other structural problems previously discussed, we\u00a0add to the headwinds we face and participate in our own oppression\u00a0by undermining each other when the opposite behavior is needed to\u00a0change our situation. Only by acknowledging this problem can we begin\u00a0to understand and change our behavior so that we can trust each other\u00a0and work together to change our organizations for the good of all.\n&nbsp;\n\n\n<table>\n\n\n<tbody>\n\n\n<tr>\n\n\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" colspan=\"2\">Characteristics of indirect and career aggression<\/td>\n\n\n<\/tr>\n\n\n\n\n<tr>\n\n\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Indirect aggression&nbsp;<\/td>\n\n\n\n\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Career Aggression&nbsp;<\/td>\n\n\n<\/tr>\n\n\n\n\n<tr>\n\n\n<td>\u2022 Consists of purposefully hurtful\u00a0behaviors that are denied when the\u00a0aggressor is confronted\n\u2022 Includes verbal and nonverbal\u00a0covert behaviors, including\n\u2013 Eye-rolling\n\u2013\u2013Subtle comments, such as \u201cI see\u00a0you didn\u2019t take your smart pill\u00a0today.\u201d\n\u2013 Silence as a weapon\n\u2013 Spreading negative rumors<\/td>\n\n\n\n\n<td>\u2022 Includes indirect behaviors but\u00a0moves beyond them to actions\u00a0intended to damage or sabotage the\u00a0career of another woman\n\u2022 May be perpetrated by a friend,\u00a0an acquaintance, or a complete\u00a0stranger in the workplace<\/td>\n\n\n<\/tr>\n\n\n<\/tbody>\n\n\n<\/table>\n\n\n&nbsp;\nAn excerpt from my book,\u00a0<em>New Rules for Women<\/em>, available at Amazon (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0982056982\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0982056982\/<\/a>).]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[82,116,225,550,551,612,634],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-posts","category-excerpt","tag-career-aggression","tag-competition","tag-gender","tag-stere","tag-stereotypes","tag-women","tag-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}