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Maybe if you appreciate and remark on what strengths she does have pertaining to whatever you're doing together, she will concentrate on doing those things and the two of you will work better as a team.

At my job I was tasked with editing a certain female coworker's docuмent. This docuмent was intended for a highly critical client and I knew it would never pass muster if I wasn't brutal to it. So I gave it back to her far more red than black, and she openly resented me for a good while after that, although I was simply acting in her and the company's best interests.

Not a good situation, because she's close with the boss's wife.

Now, my writing is typically concentrated and blunt, other times too lofty in vocabulary for the business world, while hers is more 'socially aware', so to speak - I mean that she is better able to anticipate the feelings a given reader might have. So to defuse the situation I simply entrusted her with one my own docuмents which needed her kind of eye. I didn't make a big deal about it, just mentioned off-hand that she's "pretty good with that sort of thing". Anyway, to cut the story short, it helped defuse the situation and now we have an informal thing going on where we edit eachother's stuff.

All in all, the story goes to show why I'd rather not work with women. Most men know, but won't say, that an all male work environment is usually much pleasanter; I've even met working women who knew it and preferred to work with men.

Quote from: Marcelino

Men and women have been thrown together in just about every activity known to man.  So, they've both had to adjust to it, but from a male perspective, the most challenging thing is dealing with the jealous woman.  By jealous I mean the girl who starts hating you, because you are better than she is at whatever you are doing together.  How do you cope with this?
 

Well, not being an arrogant twit in the first place would probably help.