“…Queen Bees were women who had attained high-status positions and perceived other women as threats; therefore, they sabotaged the efforts of other women to reach the senior level (Camussi & Leccardi, 2005;Joel, 1994;Williams, 1977). Horizontal violence (Freire, 1970) is a phenomenon that occurs when individuals who are oppressed take their resultant anger out on each other, because it cannot be vented upwardly at those in power.…”