Why Women Are Bullies At Work

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159. Actually in other of my posts on this thread, I have discussed that very issue.

I would direct you to my response to lumberjack jeff if you want to see my thoughts on this (I believe it is post #112), as well as some quotes from the article about this phenomenon. I don't deny that it is a problem.

However, I dispute your assertion that women do the majority of bullying to other women, particularly because you must factor in the margin of error, which is listed in the research report as 2.2%. Let's break it down numerically, albeit in a somewhat rough manner which doesn't take into account significant figures, etc..

Based on this report, given a hypothetical population of 100 bullies, 62 are going to be male, and 38 are going to be female, give or take one or two for either gender. Of 62 male bullies, about 46% target women; this translates to 28.52 men, which conventionally will be rounded up to 29 men, plus or minus one or two due to the margin of error. of 38 female bullies, 79.8% are going to target women; This adds up to about 30.324 women who target other women, again, give or take one or two.

It is very important to consider the margin of error when you are discussing statistics which are as close as these two are. I won't get into the details of probability theory, because it's pretty boring unless it's your "thing." In any case, as it happens, the difference of 1.804 people is within the margin of error (which again is 2.2) and cannot be assumed to be more than the result of chance variations in this particular sample. Thus, it seems that women who are victims of bullying are equally likely to be victimized by men as they are by women. However, men are far more likely to be bullied by male coworkers.

Now why do you think that is?