| A 2008 study[1] from the University of Toronto | | | | entrepreneur, and artist or a dreamer. As an older |
| showed that a woman who works for another | | | | women, we offer experience, wisdom and guidance; |
| woman suffers a higher degree of stress than if | | | | as a younger woman, we offer a fresh vantage |
| either she worked for a man, or if a man worked for | | | | point coupled with relatively untainted enthusiasm. |
| that same woman. Another article from the same | | | | When we as women grow big enough to actually |
| paper[2] says that there's a (nonsensical) | | | | abandon the high school animosity into which most |
| "sisterhood"belief that says it is the men who makes | | | | of us have been indoctrinated, and instead accept |
| us so incredibly devious.To put it bluntly, that is a load | | | | the gift that has been granted to us through our |
| of bull. "Actually, it isn't men—it's girls;it's the girls | | | | gender, our worlds expand. |
| they used to know and the girls they used to be, | | | | "No spoken words will ever teach young women how |
| and anybodywho ever went to an all-girls school will | | | | to love as powerfully as love-filled lives of older |
| know exactly what I mean. There is no thuggery | | | | women." From the book, Spiritual Mothering: The |
| among boys that matches the viciousness that a | | | | Titus 2 Model for Women Mentoring Women, by |
| gang of girls can inflict upon the victim of their | | | | Susan Hunt, George Grant, p 59. |
| choice." | | | | If you have set out to grow, you must choose |
| The all-important question is, does it need to be so? | | | | between climbing a ladder or catapulting over it. |
| Instead of being catty and competitive, perhaps we | | | | Climb the ladder by doing it yourself, because you |
| as unstoppable women entrepreneurs can start | | | | know you can. Catapult it by opening yourself up to |
| tapping into one of the most creative and innovated | | | | those experiences that most mirror yours in life: tap |
| sources around us: other women. | | | | into the power available to you, the power of |
| We women provide an incredibly opportunity to | | | | mentoring with other women. |
| other women, whether you are a professional, an | | | | |