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Angry men get ahead, angry women penalized

This is an interesting one about comparative psych studies. Apparently the only thing worse than an angry female trainee is an angry female CEO. She gets rated as incompetent.

the findings revealed a "difficult paradox" for professional women -- while anger can serve as a powerful tool to achieve status at work, women may have to behave calmly in order to be seen as rational.

That's what the last paragraph looks like in the yahoo article, but if you read the article it's clear it only makes sense if they missed out 'powerful tool [for men]'. Which is just classic, really - the whole article is about perceptions of women and then the sum up has unconscious-assumed-normality-is-male vs women.

It's too annoying to be facepalm.

Also in the news today is some thinktank crap about how women are going to take over the finances based on a survey of 16-24 year olds saying they wanted to. Yes, we want equality! We want to run our own bank accounts! Does that mean it happens? Gah!

And I think it was yesterday the equality comission came up with projections for how long it will take to achieve equal pay at current rates - women might, maybe, manage it in my lifetime if I live to be 90, but some minorities (like the disabled) won't ever get there based on current trends.

Joy.

The world, is pisses me off.

Guess that just makes me irrational/incompetent woman then...