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Studies show that when men are angry, people tend to lose their own confidence and defer to men’s opinions. When women are angry, the opposite happens.
Studies also reveal that people will opt to work for angry-sounding aggressive men, but not with angry-sounding aggressive women.
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This is especially obvious during elections, where male candidates thump podiums, raise their voices, curse, and shout without being called divas, shrill, unhinged, ugly, or unlikeable.
Women, on the other hand, have to be much more careful when expressing any kind of stron...
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In one study, newborns were dressed in gender-neutral clothing and researchers misled adults about their sex. Parents were far more likely to describe the babies they thought were boys as upset or angry than the girls, who they categorized instead as nice and happy.
Boys ar...
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Adaptable girls find socially acceptable ways to internalize or channel their anger, often at great personal cost. Examples of this include:
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These unspoken gender rules result in girls losing awareness of their own anger.
Their anger builds up, but they don't have a healthy way of letting it out, so instead they do things like:
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Internalizing anger is just as harmful as violent outbursts, if not even more so.
Between the ages of 12 and 15, the number of girls who have depression triples, a rate three times that of same-age boys. Feelings of powerlessness and anger are also integral to the development of eat...
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Women and men react differently to experiencing anger. For men, anger reinforces traditional gender expectations, for women it confounds them. That conflict by itself is a source of anxiety.
Girls are more likely to learn that their feelings of anger, no ma...
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There are many reasons why teenage girls specifically start feeling angry and powerless:
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Girls should be told explicitly that it’s alright to feel anger. That it’s a healthy emotion that, as humans, they have the right to feel and express. It might not make them any friends, but that’s another topic entirely.
It also doesn’t mean giving children, girls or boys,...
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Men and women have differences in biological makeups and it also involves their difference in confidence. Women have a biological tendency to seek acceptance and avoid conflict, while men tend to take more risks under pressure. This shows that women might appear to lack inner confidence.
There are plenty of areas where women have an advantage over men and the workplace is one part of that.
Other studies show that managers view men who have only part-time work experience as less hirable than women with the same experience due to gender expectations.
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