[Deestan]

When people ask me how it is to work in a male-dominated workplace, I always point out "no drama". I've gotten away with it so far.

To contrast, my wife works in a female-dominated kindergarden. There's so much "did you see the way X Looked at me", "Y ran crying from the meeting", "Z said Good Morning to W, but did you hear the tone of her voice?" going on it's making my head spin.

I also used to work in a logistic firm that was staffed pretty 50/50. Some days, there was enough drama to put a soap opera writer to shame. Though I suspect constant layoffs and competitive promotion jostling did its bit to fuel that.

I'm sorry if this makes me come out as sexist, but to the best of my empirical knowledge, women are more drama-prone than men.

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[jellicle]

Man and women both have dominance politics. Men do things like shake hands too firmly, stare at each other's eyes, stand while the other person is sitting, play basketball aggressively after work, wear elevator shoes, etc. Women do it in different ways: drama. It's really the same thing.

[true_religion]

I think the idea is that women have equivalents for all the male modes of dominance politics (e.g. high heels vs elevator shoes), and then some. Also, women talk openly about the practice of politics more often while men are more likely to create a fiction about 'meritocracy'.