There is another interesting article in my local paper today written by Venessa Wong of Bloomberg Businessweek on a recently published report published by Judith Baxter of Ashton University's School of Language & Social Sciences in the U.K. One of her findings is that jokes told by female senior professionals are often perceived as "contrived, defensive or just mean." And, "more than 80% of women's jokes [in the study] were met with silence."
Why? Well, you'll have to read the whole article and maybe even locate the study to get the full scoop.
Still, I would very much like to hear from women in leadership positions to get their perception of whether this study rings true for them; and why or why or not.
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