IF WOMEN RAN THE WORLD... KABOOM

We've all heard it a million times, if women ran the world... there would be no more war, or it would be more peaceful or something similar. The truth is, if women ran the world they wouldn't be in charge for long; they'd massacre one another and men would have to take charge to make peace. Take offices managed by women for example:

Women bosses are significantly more likely than men to discriminate against female employees, research has suggested.

The study found that when presented with applications for promotion, women were more likely than men to assess the female candidate as less qualified than the male one.

They were also prone to mark down women’s prospects for promotion and to assess them as more controlling than men in their management style.

Nicola Horlick, the City financier nicknamed “Superwoman” for combining a demanding job with a large family, said some women looked on other women as a threat and preferred to surround themselves with men.

“It is called the ‘queen bee syndrome’,” she said. “I have seen women in managerial positions discriminating against other women, possibly because they like to be the only female manager or woman in the workplace.”

Recent cases that have illustrated this problem include that of Helen Green, 36, a Deutsche Bank employee from London. In August she was awarded nearly £800,000 in damages after two years of bullying by four female colleagues that eventually led to a nervous breakdown.

The researchers put this down to role stereotyping. Bullshit. Women have trouble getting along with other women. Put them in charge of the world's government and there'd be a very nasty battle for supremacy. That fabled button we've all heard so much about would finally be pushed.