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Article: Women Must Work Harder, Study Shows; In Surveys of American and British Employees, Gender Gap Persists.
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- November 28, 2007
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Byline: University of Virginia
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Nov. 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- The joke, "Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good," may not be totally off the mark in the workplace.
In a recent study, no matter how they sliced the data and controlled certain variables, sociologists Elizabeth Gorman of the University of Virginia and Julie Kmec of Washington State University, came to the same conclusion: women say they have to work harder than men.
On five different surveys given in different years, to different groups of men and women in Britain and the United States, a gender gap persisted in ratings of the ...