Essay 4264

From The New York Post…

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GETTING AHEAD CAN BE A BITCH

By LEELA de KRETSER, Post Wire Services

Women need to control their anger at work or risk being seen as “out of control” and incompetent, although men can get ahead by blowing a gasket, a new study has found.

The aptly titled report, “When Can Angry Women Get Ahead?” asked survey participants to rate male and female job candidates after watching a video of them interviewing.

In the video, the men and women alternatively get angry or sad over explaining how they lost an account at their former job because a colleague turned up late to a meeting.

Study participants easily ranked the man who said he was angry over the loss as the number one candidate for the job, followed by the woman who said she was sad over losing the account.

Participants wanted to pay the man significantly more.

The man who said he was sad came in at third, while the woman who said she was angry was ranked last by a sizeable margin.

The findings have implications for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, says report author Victoria Brescoll, who notes that Republicans, in order to win, will need to denounce the Democrat’s run for president because she is too angry.

“As Senator Clinton's experience suggests, for a professional woman anger expression may lead to a decrease rather than an increase in her status,” Brescoll wrote.

She said the attitude to angry women wasn’t conscious. “People are hardly aware of it.”