Gender Matters with Anger

In the battle of the sexes, the little lady better stay unemotional and let the big man yell at her. That's because in the workplace, an angry man is likely to be viewed as admirable, while the angry chick is likely to be viewed as "out of control" and "incompetent." Wow.
An article on CNN.com discusses how in a study participants watched videos of males and females interviewing and were asked to rate their statuses and assign them salary. Participants gave the man who was most angry the highest status and the woman whom was most angry the least status. Another study showed that when women were perceived to be angry with "good reason" their status improved.
Victoria Brescoll, the author of the research paper, "When Can Angry Women Get Ahead," says this reveals a paradox and that women will have to appear calm in order to be regarded as rational. An analogy was made to Hillary Clinton, who has been said to be "too angry to be elected president" last year by a top ranking Republican.
Well, I don't know about competence, but in my office, I try to sort both the angry men and women into two categories: justified and unjustified. I'm not angry, by the way. But, it does pay to pretend to be sometimes.