Being the boss requires a lot of responsibility and wielding that type of power is definitely a stressful gig, but according to a new study published in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, women in positions of authority displayed more depressive symptoms than their male counterparts.

Entire books have been written recently about how women need to be more assertive in the workplace. But how do we actually get women to do this en masse? A recent study, published in the Psychology of Women Quarterly asked 60 female college freshmen to write an essay about their personal accomplishments. To reflect…

While the following news may seem a little bit TL;DR/duh/moving on, a new study indicates that if you are unattractive and/or mean at work, your coworkers are more like to be unpleasant to you. Man, I hate high school.

[x] Let the river run.

Provoked by the four-year-long lawsuit between Rina Bovrisse and her former employer, Prada Japan, the United Nations is backing Bovrisse and pushing Japan to introduce legislation to make sexual harassment and discrimination in the workplace illegal.

Do you think you should let that male coworker take the last donut? No. Absolutely not. Don't let him have it right away, anyhow. Grab that donut and rub it all over your titties — you're establishing your territory. Give it back to your male coworker, then thump your chest like a gorilla and maybe flick him off.

Not that I'm trying to put too much emphasis on sex, but if you have a lot of sex, you'll live forever. That's just science.

I used to work with someone who baby-talked all day long. She'd be on the phone with contacts, asking for something, in the cheerful pitch and tone of an adorable kid trying to be adorable. Shirley Temple sounded more mature. It was so annoying.

A lot of remoras have been nibbling on Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In phraseology, offering their own ass-backwards versions, as well as criticizing the entire capitalistic foundation of Sandberg's book. Languishing somewhere in the midst of these contending opinions about feminism, capitalism, and stay at home mothering…

It seems that Adria Richards, the developer evangelist who fired the tweet heard round the tech community when she'd decided she'd heard one ""dongle" quip too many at male-dominated conferences like PyCon or the entire tech industry, will have a solid wrongful termination case.

Largely single-sex workplaces are a problem that go beyond the dearth of women in corporate leadership positions, or the nagging brand of puerile misogyny that seems to plague the tech industry — such workplaces help cultivate an insidiously subtle culture of sexual assault in the way they keep men and women from…

The most esteemed Iowa circle jerk all-male Iowa Supreme Court ruled 7-0 on Friday that a dentist was totally within his legal rights when he fired his female assistant because he and his wife all held hands and decided that the woman was a threat to their marriage. In other words, a female employee in Iowa was fired…

Last night I had a dream—nay, a NIGHTMARE—in which I approached my inner circle with our usual refrain, "Any gossip?" and was met with icy stink-eyes. "You know, Lindy, gossiping is actually really mean. We all got together and decided that you're out of the group and we're not going to gossip anymore. Also, FYI, you…

Saudi Arabia is so committed to its policy of segregating the genders that it is going to build an entire city just for women to work in all by themselves. The women-only industrial city, to be built within the Eastern Province city of Hofuf, is just the first of what could be many zones that the Gulf kingdom aims to…

In case you weren't awkward enough in the myriad of social situations you're violently tossed into throughout your daily routine, a new study from the London Business School into how people gossip about other people behind their backs will confirm all of your paranoid fantasies about your co-workers all conspiring to…