women penalized for being angry at work

Angry women lose out according to this study. Most interesting part: these are not women who lost their tempers, or were in any way out of control; they were just women who SAID they were angry. Calmly.

And, this difference was reflected in the hypothetical compensation assigned to these women by study participants.

Participants conferred the most status on the man who said he was angry, the second most on the woman who said she was sad, slightly less on the man who said he was sad, and least of all by a sizable margin on the woman who said she was angry.

It makes me wonder what about angry women is so threatening to people... unresolved mother issues?

Also interesting: men were penalized for being sad, so it seems as though some of this is about culturally acceptable gender roles and emotional expression.