"The U-Va. president drama: Is it the Queen Bee scenario?"

Asks WaPo columnist Petula Dvorak:

The woman doing the firing is a sharp-profiled, sharp-suited corporate leader who has busted chops in the male-dominated world of construction — “The Devil Wears Prada” and a hard hat. Her name, Helen E. Dragas, even sounds Hollywood...

The woman who was fired — and whose reinstatement students and faculty are rallying behind — is U-Va.’s first female president, Teresa Sullivan. She is a beloved, bespectacled professor and respected scholar in a softer discipline — sociology — and was admired for her quiet advocacy of women and open-door policy toward students. She zips around campus in her Smart car and teaches a sociology class....

It is difficult to understand exactly why Dragas called for Sullivan’s resignation....

That’s why the Queen Bee scenario seems to make so much sense here....


According to a 2010 study by the Workplace Bullying Institute, the Queen Bee is still buzzing over cubicles everywhere.... “In 2007, the woman-on-woman bullying prevalence was 71 percent. Now it is 80 percent. Looks like the American workplace is growing ever more toxic for women, at the hands of women,” the study said.

Read the whole thing, and let's talk about the Queen Bee syndrome.

Is the Queen Bee syndrome a real and serious problem in the workplace today?
	Yes. A powerful woman wants to be the The One Woman. It's timeless psychology.
	No. Women are devoted to the sisterhood. It's men who oppress women.
	Some individuals have a problem with other individuals. Gender stereotypes are obfuscating.
	As usual, none of Althouse's options accurately states the contents of my beautiful mind.
	I don't know, but I vote for Althouse as Queen Bee.
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