Work place culture - What are your thoughts on this article?

I thought it was known women are more socially vicious among themselves than men? Look at all the gossip stereotypes, they exist for a reason. Growing up in a family of almost all girls (Asian extended side is a total matriarchy) vs a best friend who had the opposite (all guys) I've seen first hand how the dynamics differ. The guys will physically beat up on each other a lot sure, but the girls will psychologically torture each other through rumors and put downs to the point of permanent emotional harm. I think it's pretty tough to blame the workplace here. Even when I was in college and worked part-time in regular retail or as a server, the teams that had majority female leadership in my experience seemed to have more infighting when it came to other female employees vs teams with male leadership and how they acted with male employee. I would see female managers act more territorial and aggressive towards female employees who either made an innocent mistake or appeared to be "going over" the managers head and witnessed lessr-to-no reaction when male employees made the same error.

Is it wrong to point out that women on average value work/life balance more? Then adjust for the fact that many women who get to the senior level of these high performing and demanding careers like law and finance will have often sacrificed their personal lives and essentially dedicated themselves to the job to get where they are. It makes sense that they might experience resentment towards female subordinates who don't share their career views/orientation. Just like how in banking there are plenty of people who want to lump work onto analysts because "that's how it was in my day", these same women who blazed trails through unforgiving career paths now see how the times are changing to make things more open to women and perceive the new generation as not working nearly as hard as they did to get to the same place.

Even in finance, for my first 2 jobs my bosses were a woman CEO and manager. They almost exclusively seemed to work with male hires and even around us occasionally talked shit about other female coworkers over seemingly innocuous reasons such as "what she's wearing looks so bad on her" and "she's such a two-faced little bitch" after holding what seemed like very civil conversations with the other party. I've never experienced this same type of venom from male bosses regarding male employees. Granted, maybe this is BECAUSE I'm male and my sample size is small which goes to support this isn't the norm. But in my experience, women cutting down on other women more than men is a pretty common occurrence.

Louis C.K. I think said something along the lines of "You can measure the damage sons do in your replacement costs today and daughters in your therapy costs down the road.