December 31, 2006 12:51 PM

Note to Queen Bees - It's time to buzz off
Posted by Diane Danielsonat 12:51 PM

A new study out of London finds that Queen Bees may do as much or more to limit women's careers than the old boy's club.

FORGET “jobs for the boys”. Women bosses are significantly more likely than men to discriminate against female employees, research has suggested.

The study found that when presented with applications for promotion, women were more likely than men to assess the female candidate as less qualified than the male one.

They were also prone to mark down women’s prospects for promotion and to assess them as more controlling than men in their management style.

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“Female and older participants showed more prejudice against the (idea of a) female leader than did male and younger participants,” said Rocio Garcia-Retamero, a psychologist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin and lead author of the report

To any Queen Bees who may be reading this.  It's time you realized that we're all in this together, and maybe you should get to know the phrase - Primum non nocere, or "First, do no harm."