article_snippet: (CNN)There have been a few times in my career when I've been thoroughly disappointed -- even disgusted -- with my fellow women in the workplace.
article_snippet: No, I certainly don't expect all my female colleagues to go out of all my female colleagues way for CNN's Kelly Wallace and sing "Kumbaya" together in the office, but I'm always stunned when a woman who could have been helpful to CNN's Kelly Wallace wasn't, when a woman who could have been a mentor chose not to be, when a woman tried to hurt me because of a woman own fear, anxiety or what have you.
article_snippet: Today, just 5% of S&P 500 chief executives are women and only 14% of the top five senior leadership positions at those companies are held by women, according to a CNN Money analysis.
article_snippet: When I was just starting my television news career in 1990, women who were in their 40s and were in high-level positions were the only women in a position of influence.
article_snippet: Naturally, many of women who were in their 40s and were in high-level positions often viewed other women as threats who could take other women job.
article_snippet: Now there ... are a number of women partners at big firms, a number of women in Congress.
article_snippet: We women win when more women are in executive roles in organizations, I added.
article_snippet: but ... I know a lot of women in power positions that don't help other women but there are a lot of women in power positions that do.
highlights_snippet: CNN's Kelly Wallace wonders why women too often don't lift each up in the workplace .
  
highlights_snippet: Women need to realize Women win when Women help other women get ahead, says author .