I Can't Believe She Did That Why Women Betray Other Women at Work [Paperback]

The massive influx of women into the workplace in the past thirty years means a whole new category of problems has arisen among women at work. Suddenly, women are working over, under, and alongside other women. Women on the job have grown more comfortable with ambition, competition, and success, but that hasn't negated the value they place on communication and relationshipson being liked and being nice.

In this provocative social and cultural exploration of the often troubled and painful dynamics that unfold among women at work, Nan Mooney explores how and why some women hurt each other on the job, and what we can do to begin cleaning up the mess.

I Can't Believe She Did That!provides vivid insights on the emotional toll competition can take on working women and charts a path towards more productive and fulfilling relationships for professional women everywhere.

Nan Mooney grew up in Seattle and graduated from Scripps College in California. Her work has appeared in, among others,The Washington Post,Women's eNews, Slate.com,Seattle WeeklyandThe Blood-Horse. She is the author ofMy Racing Heart: The Passionate World of Thoroughbreds and the Track. She lives in New York City.

Nan Mooney'sI Can't Believe She Did That!is unafraid to focus productively upon the dark' or often hidden side of sisterhood in the workplace&Read this book. It will help you in your relationships with other women, both at work and everywhere else. Phyllis Chesler, Ph.D. author of Woman's Inhumanity to Woman and The Death of Feminism: What's Next in the Struggle for Women's Freedom

Ms Mooney has done well to write a book on such an un-PC topic.... the book has made me examine my own feelings and what I find there is ugly. Lucy Kellaway,The Financial Times

(Mooney) pens an insightful real life look at workplace competition between women and offers some suggestions to minimize the dlÓs