Study: Women's Offices Have More Germs

[Blue-Jay]

The study comes from University of Arizona researchers Sheri Maxwell, B.S., and Charles Gerba, Ph.D. It was funded by the Clorox Company.

The researchers swabbed the offices of 59 women and 54 men in New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oregon, and Washington, D.C. They sampled eight sites in each office: the phone, desktop, computer mouse, computer keyboard, exclamation key on the computer keyboard, pen, bottom of desk drawer, and handle of desk drawer. Those samples showed twice as much bacteria in women's offices as in men's.

The researchers also swabbed workers' personal items at the office, including personal digital assistants (PDAs), women's purses and makeup cases, and men's wallets. Men's wallets had more germs than any other item studied — personal or office.

Here are the top three bacteria hot spots in women's offices, in order of germs:
* Makeup case
* Phone
* Purse

more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/13/health/webmd/main2468760.shtml

[SOteric]

1. This doesn't surprise me.

In most traditional relationships, women are the caregivers to sick children, husbands and other family members /friends. And in my observation, -men spend a lot of time killing off their ambient germs with alcoholic substances. Like beer. And whiskey.

[Blue-Jay]

2. Plus, women tend to collect snot rags.

In the purse, in the desk, wherever...