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crying shame

Angry Women In The Workplace Seen As "Less Competent" Than Men

Yale psychologist Victoria Brescoll has confirmed what has long been the suspicion of many women: you cannot afford to get angry at the office if you own a vagina. According to science news site EurekAlert, Brescoll's study, published in the March issue of Psychological Science, showed that "People accept and even reward men who get angry but view women who lose their temper as less competent." The study involved showing subjects videos of male and female actors applying for a job; aterwards, the viewers were asked to rate the "applicants" on how competent they were, how much salary they deserved, and if they should be hired or not. "Both men and women in the reached the same conclusions," notes EurekAlert, "Angry men deserved more status, a higher salary, and were expected to be better at the job than angry women," regardless of the level of job for which the fake applicants were applying. More »

9:30 AM on Thu Apr 3 2008
By Jessica
3,879 views, 161 comments

Latest by superlayne: @ilikenoise is Queen of Su Dokus: That is one of my favorite movies adaptions of anything... more »

bully for you

Bullies Are As Common In The Cubicle As The Classroom

Much has been made of kids who get bullied recently — Billy Wolfe, in fact, was on the Today show this morning — but the truth is, many of us face bullies as adults: At work. On a BusinessWeek blog, Cathy Arnst writes about an editor she once had: "Whenever I made a mistake—and in the beginning I made many, many mistakes—he would stand over me in the open newsroom and scream at me, impugning my intelligence and professional skills in language I've rarely heard since. I had nightmares about those tirades for years afterwards. Needless to say, I never made the same mistake twice." According to a New York Times piece by Tara Parker-Pope yesterday, 37% of American workers have experienced bullying on the job. More »

5:30 PM on Wed Mar 26 2008
By Dodai
4,318 views, 99 comments

Latest by ダニー最高: The whole 'being excluded from social gatherings' is extremely rough. It's not something you can really complain about in any sort of official capacity, but when all the guys in the office are constantly going out drinking or for lunch more »

fucking the man

How Our Generation Stopped Worrying And Learned To Love Sexual Harrassment

"It's only sexual harrassment if your boss is ugly." Thus spoke casting agent "Chrissy, 26" in the latest issue of listings weekly Time Out New York, a sentiment which made us smile in agreement to ourselves before we resumed feeling guilty about being terrible feminists. But then! We picked up the latest issue of our favorite womanly magazine, Psychology Today, and read: Sexual harassment just proves a boss is totally about the equal rights! As the story explains, what we think of as the "patriarchy" is just a bunch of bossmen so horny they'll do whatever they can to get you to fuck them. But what if they get all nasty and degrading about it? It's just a sign of their respect. "Long before women entered the labor force, men subjected each other to such abusive, intimidating and degrading treatment." Dude! We're in a boy's club! More »

1:18 PM on Mon Jul 2 2007
By Moe
1,487 views, 7 comments

Latest by NicoleItchy: Eh, they're all just gonna quit (I'm sorry, "opt out") once they marry well and have babies anyway. more »