Women
fromPsychology Today
1 week agoWhy Some Women Lift Others Up and Some Don't
Women's supportive behavior toward peers is shaped primarily by workplace structure and organizational culture rather than individual personality traits.
The media often portrays competitive, ambitious women as villains, and this pattern appears again and again in popular movies and TV shows. Consider one of the most iconic depictions of a powerful woman in The Devil Wears Prada: its formidable editor, Miranda Priestly, who is feared and disliked by most in the film simply for being authoritative and unapologetically ambitious. The stereotype is embedded in the title itself, where a successful woman is framed as cold and devilish for being open about her ambitions.