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It's well known that being socialised to "play nice" from childhood doesn't always serve women well at work, but women who are too aggressive are also holding back gender parity, a workplace psychologist warns.

In The Sisterhood Paradox, psychologist and transformation strategist Vanessa Vershaw writes that female aggression and bullying in the workplace is an "under-examined threat" worthy of more discussion.

"Through examining this threat more closely, we have the potential to create awareness about the importance of allyship in building more positive environments for us all to flourish...