Harridans are considered by employers to be "challenging" to manage

[MatureDJ]

Data Reveals An Infuriating Reason Women Over 40 Are Held Back At Work

A recent study exposes how insidious age discrimination is — and it should make you mad.

www.huffpost.com

As the researchers wrote in Harvard Business Review, “One college leader described how some search committees chose not to hire women in their late forties because of ‘too much family responsibility and impending menopause.’ Other search committees declined to hire women in their 50s because they have ‘menopause-related issues and could be challenging to manage.’...Yet the jobs were given to similarly aged men.”

 

[The Duke]

“As they do grow older and more mature in their careers, [women] lose some of the fear of speaking their mind. And certain men don’t like that,” Diehl said. “Men will allow women into the workplace ... and will be supportive of women in the workplace to the extent that women are compliant, supportive of the men, and they don’t push back.”


I'm not surpised. It's the same thing in dating.

 

[BaronOfHair]

... and will be supportive of women in the workplace to the extent that women are compliant, supportive of the men, and they don’t push back.”


I'm not surpised. It's the same thing in dating.

There's "pushing back"/dissenting with specific dimensions of what someone else has said

Vs


-Going out of one's way to be a grade A pain in someone else's ass, just because you aren't particularly fond that individual


Quite a few gals of all ages mistake the latter mode of operating for the former, and this isn't even a new phenomena... When Anne Of Green Gables first became a bestseller in The 1900s, legions of readers(most of them women)began imitating her behavior faster than 90s kids started chanting "F-ck The Police" after hearing NWA say those words

This has re-occurred several times over the proceeding decades, whenever AOGG gets a fresh TV miniseries