101 Business Ideas That Will Change the Way You Work

IDEA #22

Anger management: she needs it, he doesn’t

Women are penalised for demonstrating anger in the workplace, whereas men are admired for doing exactly the same.

What you need to know

Victoria Brescoll of Yale University specialises in both fascinating and provocative research on gender stereotypes in business. In 2008 she published an article on the outcome of three experiments she conducted that demonstrated the extent to which, compared to men acting in the same way, woman are disproportionately penalised for showing anger in the workplace (in Brescoll’s experiments this was demonstrated in terms of perceived competence and estimated ...