power aspects of femininity - the feminine power style
- women among women
- cooperation: When a woman co-operates she is submitting to the will of the other person in the expectation that the other person will take her needs and wants into consideration. When women co-operate with each other they are submitting to the combined will of the two people in the relationship (which includes her, of course, so she has a say in the decision-making process.)
- consensus decision-making
- shared responsibility: each person takes equal responsibility for making sure that everything is shared equally, that each person gets what she wants or, when that is not possible, that no-one gets more of what she wanted than anyone else
- flat power structure: Women, in my experience, are capable of working in a group of women without ever having to figure out a pecking order.
- rules: Women would rather do without rules, and tend to work with each other to circumvent them.
- women among men
- In most workplaces, a woman's femininity works against her, because the business world operates by masculine principles: competition constrained by rules.