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Title: Boss' Gender Can Affect Workers' Stress
Post by: Natasha on September 10, 2008, 05:59:01 PM
Boss' Gender Can Affect Workers' Stress

http://www.livescience.com/culture/080909-boss-gender.html (http://www.livescience.com/culture/080909-boss-gender.html)
9/10/2008

Bosses in general can be a pain in the ... well, you know, but a new
study finds that your boss' gender can affect just how much pain he or
she seems to inflict.

Researchers at the University of Toronto used data from a 2005
national telephone survey of working adults in the United States and
compared the stress levels and physical health problems of men and
women working in one of three situations: for a lone male supervisor,
a lone female supervisor, or for both a male and female supervisor.