This new Hite Report goes beyond the author?s previous groundbreaking examination of female sexuality to explore the complicated relationships between mothers and daughters, sisters, friends, colleagues, leaders, and lovers. It explores the nature of female friendship and work relationships between women. From feuding sisters, to mothers jealous of their daughters, to sabotage in the workplace, this book explores why relationships between women so often end in acrimony. Thousands of interviews with women around the world lead her to the conclusion that friction and jealousy in these interactions are the result of a hidden taboo that discourages honesty about female sexuality between mother and daughter in childhood. This broken bond fosters distrust, suspicion, and hostility toward women that extends into every arena. Concluding that women have much to gain by cooperating rather than co-opting each other, this treatise will inspire women of all ages to put aside their rivalry and work together for a new definition of female power.