No, The Conflict At The University Of Virginia Has Got Nothing To Do With A ‘Queen Bee Scenario’
Posted in: Today's ChiliBack when the contretemps that’s currently engulfing the University of Virginia concerning the ouster of University President Teresa Sullivan started heating up in earnest, I was worried that someone, somewhere in the world, would look at the conflict between the president and the school’s rector, Helen Dragas, and reduce the whole matter to some dumb “women in the workplace” story. This would have cemented the tiresome cliche that co-working women inevitably turn into bitter enemies in some grand intra-gender war for supremacy. Happily, people out there in the world did a good job of not doing that.
Until today, anyway! This morning, the Washington Post‘s Petula Dvorak decided to do some high-test concern trolling on the conflict at the University of Virginia, in which she wondered if all the interest in the story is not about the future of the institution or competing visions about higher education, but rather if it’s “just the woman-on-woman smackdown that makes us all keep tuning in?”
It has come down to a clash of two successful women, and they are both great characters, both firsts in their positions …
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