My female boss is harder on me than on the men on our team and I cannot tell if she is trying to prepare me or if she just absorbed the same biases everyone else has.
More people experience this than they realize.
Internalized discrimination can lead those with authority to impose harsher standards on members of their own marginalized group.
“Where Are You with Femininity — constructed and contested?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.