New Delhi: Forget sisterhood - majority of working women would rather have a male boss and flirt their way to the top, says a recent survey conducted in the UK.
According to a survey done by magazine Harper's Bazaar women complain of inequality in the workplace and yet they rely upon their feminine charms to get what they want.
Rather than combining strength with fellow female workers, women see other women as the main competition, said The Daily Mail citing the survey findings.
Crying in the loos was a common confession with 85 per cent of women admitting that they had locked themselves in the office toilet for a quick weep.
Three out of five women said they would rather work directly for a man than a woman while a further 86 per cent said they would happily flirt with a male colleague if it meant they got their own way.
The survey questioned 500 professional women with top jobs in finance, newspapers and healthcare about their attitudes to their office environments.
Despite striving for equality at work a third of women admitted to pretending to be less intelligent than they actually are to flatter a male ego and get ahead.
Seven out of ten women said that simply by wearing a pair of high heels to work they automatically felt more powerful and confident in their ability to deal with the working day.
Nearly 70 per cent confessed that they would secretly revel in seeing another colleague fail while one in five have taken the credit for someone else's work.
More than half of women thought that women with children held more power in the office to the disadvantage of those without.
"We work in a female-dominated industry and were amazed at this lack of 'sisterly' support. But considering so many also confessed to flirting with a male colleague as a means to getting their own way, perhaps we shouldn't have been so shocked!" Harper's Bazaar editor Lucy Yeomans was quoted by The Daily Mail.
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