Cutting other women out of our lives with the expectation that it will propel us to opportunities for advancement typically reserved for men is not the solution. It’s a smoke screen that’ll distract you from setting true goals for yourself about where you want to be. If your professional strategy is seeking the validation of men, or putting down women who are lateral to you in order to appear more capable to these men, in hopes that they will bestow upon you their approval and permission to move up in the world, you’re resigned to giving yourself no real agency whatsoever.
