We've all seen the stereotype of the overbearing queen bee boss who makes everyone else's life miserable.
It may seem like a tired trope, but some women do feel that female bosses bully them more than their male ones do.
Studies show that when women have a preference, they would choose to have a male boss instead of a female one.
One paper even found that the longer a woman was in the workforce, the less likely she was to want a woman as her boss.
So where does this feeling come from?
At a glance, the queen bee phenomenon seems to reinforce the idea that women are naturally vicious.
But that's actually not true.
Instead, bitchiness is a byproduct of the modern workplace.
There are a few conditions that create these toxic attitudes.
Some women disparage each other simply because they believe negative ideas about their own gender.
