FACT SHEET
Tripping the Prom Queen is the first comprehensive look at women’s rivalry, based on ground-breaking original research:
- More than 90 percent of women of different social strata claim that envy and jealousy toward other women colors their lives
- 80 percent of women say they have encountered jealousy in other women since they were in grade school
- 90 percent of women in diverse jobs report that competition in the workplace is primarily between women, rather than between women and men
- More than 65 percent of interviewees said that they were jealous of their best friend or sister
- More than 70 percent of interviewees were familiar with the concept of women stealing a friend’s husband, lover, boyfriend, or job
- 40 percent of interviewees reported that they themselves were the victims of another woman’s theft of a husband, lover, boyfriend, or job
- 25 percent of interviewees reported that they themselves had stolen their friend’s husband, lover, boyfriend, or job