I have to agree and I have said this before, I have had more issues with other women exhibiting petty, bitchy and small minded behavior than any men in the tech industry. Now outside the tech industry (finance) it was rampant. Then again, I also matured and decided I wasn’t going to take that crap. I also found that when men behaved badly it was the type of individual and the behaviors were overt. When women behaved badly it was more subversive and by being exclusionary — like the ‘mean girls club’. One thing to remember though, being a nasty person isn’t related to gender, it is related to the inidividual and should be called out as such.