Posted on 08/09/2005 5:28:53 PM PDT by pissant
Washington: Women who send flirtatious emails, wear short skirts or massage a man's shoulders at the workplace win fewer pay raises and promotions, according to a new study.
The study, conducted among MBA graduates by Tulane University, showed that half the respondents have sometimes engaged in some sexual behaviours to advance in their careers.
This includes crossing legs provocatively or leaning over a table to let men look down their shirts, it said.
But, interestingly, those women who said they have never engaged in sexual activities have earned an average of three promotions against two for the group that had employed sexuality, the study showed.
Those who said they never used sexuality at a workplace were, on an average, earning $75,000-$100,000 per annum, while the other half fell in the next-lowest range, $50,000 to $75,000.
The women in the study, the first of its kind, ranged in the age of mid-20 to 60 years, the 'USA Today' reported.
It was an attempt to make plain the negative consequences of such behaviour, the report said.
Academic experts have so far not studied the use of sexual behaviour in the work place.
After searching managerial literature, Tulane professor Arthur Brief found no evidence showing such behaviour to be effective or ineffective.
The Tulane study's findings are statistically significant to professional women looking for career advancement, Brief said.
Brief said the study goes so far as to suggest that women should even be careful about letting men open doors, because chivalry is "benevolent sexism" that advances the stereotype that women are vulnerable and weak.
Red Alert . . .Red Alert . . .thread hijack in progress . . .
I know. We have to ban the chicks from this thread!
Dunno, but we'll be the judge of that ... {lowers voice} what're you wearing right now? =)
Ghastly, I know!
Yes, ladies. Listen to gate2wire!!
This is fiction ladies!!! Believe not a word .. it's a plot, a plot I tell ya!!
Spare me. Crow tastes mighty fine, as you'll find out!
Then again, I'm not at the office.
Get out from under that desk, Teeny!!!!
Asphalt, this is an R rated thread. We'll need to see a note from your guardian!
Whatever. I just got a raise. (pun, no pun, pun, no pun. . . )
'to make conservative women less attractive so HildaBeast will look more "womanly"'
Yeah, mrs. clinton will look more womanly...and fat teddy kennedy is a SOBER, 190lb. Navy Seal. :-)
"It was an attempt to make plain the negative consequences of such behaviour, the report said."
And how do they know that sex didn't help these girls get a promotion?
If he were to marry Barbara Boxer, She would be Barbara Boxer-Brief?
I dig retro, and I'm not fat. So there.
Ouch ... run for your life Pissant!!!!
Is that the shirt that says 'Just do it"?
"Get out from under that desk, Teeny!!!!"
Ouch. LOL!!!
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