Originally Posted by
Sunfish
"Connected" is the word. There is an "Old Girls Network" started in the days of Margaret Whitlam. They are quite open about it because they see it as a counterweight to the non existent "old boys network". The girls get recruited out of final year business school. All of the members have their proteges.
A viscous and nasty collective.
It is supposedly males who need to check their "privilege and bow on bended knee".
Watching their vitriol at work reminds all that neither gender has a monopoly on vindictiveness, manipulation and games"person"ship.