Working with men is bad for your health, researchers say

Submitted by Mastodon on Fri, 2015-09-18 19:57

Article here. Excerpt:

'Yet another reason to ban men.

A new study from the Indiana University Bloomington has found that working in male-dominated offices can do serious damage to female employees’ health.

In a large US survey, researchers studied the stress hormones of more than 440 women who worked in offices where at least 85% of the workforce were men.

They found that women working in these strongly male-dominated environments had unhealthier patterns of cortisol – the damaging stress hormone – than those who worked in more gender balanced offices.
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Men, meanwhile, don’t exhibit the same disrupted cortisol levels as women in offices where there are 85% or more men.

The only logical solution? Kick all the men out of the office. Let’s woman it up.'

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... all-female work envs. tend to encapsulate less-stressful lines of work than all-male ones. For example: police work, even desk-bound police work, is stressful. But it's also true most police are men. And policing regardless of gender of the officers is stressful.

Correlation does not entail causation.

And isn't it possible that women might on avg. induce more stress in ea. other when they work in "male-dominated" offices via competitive socializing w/ each other over the men in the office? Can't blame men for it.

Or can you. Well, someone's bound to, right?

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Submitted by Matt on Sat, 2015-09-19 00:08

. . . though you always were more eloquent than I. :-)

BTW, I don't think the author was serious, but if you want to ban men, good luck replacing that 85 percent of the office with female workers. Seriously, good friggin' luck. Sometimes I wonder if these authors know how stupid they sound when they write hogwash statements like that.

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Submitted by xtrnl on Sat, 2015-09-19 03:00

Hmmm If this article is serious, I find it interesting that a lot of us women say we prefer working with men, than we do other women.
Personally, I get on much better with men than I do other females.
For one thing, men don't waste their time talking, so much, and tend to get a job done faster and more efficiently, on average.
I find it stressful working with other women. I can't stand the drama and the emotional overloads.

of course women like me are rarely or never interviewed on these types of matters. Or even when we are, our statements are edited out.
I have been surveyed before, in such things. They are really only interested in the statements of women who will rubbish men.
If we don't, our voices are edited out.

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Submitted by ErikaLancastor on Sun, 2015-09-20 03:39