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Because women cannot afford to be angry. A recent study at Yale University found that when it comes to anger, there is a big gender bias.

Victoria Berscoll, the psychologist who did the study, said “An angry woman loses status, no matter what her position.” Women pay a big price for showing anger in public while men are rewarded. It does not matter if the woman is applying for minimum wage job or the highest office in the land. In the study, participants ranked applicants after watching videos of men and women applying for a job. Videos were taken for three distinct emotional states of the actors playing the role of the applicants: angry, sad, and neutral. Angry men were valued higher and given better status and more salary than angry women. Sad men and women were valued almost equally, except for salary. The same was true when they were emotionally neutral. Interestingly, when women explained the cause of their anger they were valued higher - with explanations, people tend to be more sympathetic towards women. For men however, it worked the other way: once men explained their reasons they were valued lower - for men, explanations were seen as weakness.

And before you ladies get all angry about it, remember this: men and women are equally biased. Both men and women have identical reactions to an angry woman and man.