Catfight Women and Competition Author:Leora Tanenbaum Is the myth of the catfight real? Do women really resort to pettiness and backstabbing when in conflict with each other? Has it always been this way? With a sociologists eye and a feminists passion, Leora Tanenbaum examines what happens when women compete. She discovers that the stereotype does have a basis in fact. Whether in the cl... more »assroom, the boardroom, or the delivery room, there is a kind of brutal competition between women that does not exist between men. She examines the reasons for this and discusses who really gains when women are locked in battle with each other. She also shows there is an alternative. Tanenbaum presents two major examples of women successfully working together to bring about social change: the womens suffrage movement and the battle for Title IX, which led to the rise of womens sports.« less
There are many reasons why women fight. I think I was looking for answers for my own situation, and this book just didn't fit the bill. I read this in about an hour. It was an interesting hour.