MIRROR, MASK AND MARGIN: The pretty, petty, and power-hungry phenomenon of young women who bully older women in professional spaces
By Cathay Yenana:
Multi-Media Activist Diedra "Deepa Soul" Meredith
In glossy recruitment brochures and women’s leadership panels, we often hear about Empowerment, Mentorship, and Sisterhood. Yet behind the slogans, in many modern professional workspaces, a quieter betrayal brews, as younger women target, exclude, and undermine their older female colleagues.
It’s a form of gendered aggression few want to name, because it disrupts the comforting narrative of female solidarity. But if you speak to enough women in their forties, fifties, and sixties, you’ll hear it whispered, this new face of bullying often wears lipstick and a graduate badge.
Bullying in the workplace has become a multifaceted, often gendered phenomenon. While much research has centred on horizo...