For this week's interview, I summarized an article titled "Workers happier with members of same gender, study finds," in the Business section of The Boston Globe. The article described main findings of a study published in an academic journal in the summer of 2014. The study found three main things: 1) employees are happier when they work with people of the same sex; 2) workplaces where both men and women work together are more productive than single-sex workplaces; and 3) women report that they have a difficult time getting their ideas noticed when they work with men, and when they do become assertive they get accused of being the "b" word. My respondent said that she was not surprised to hear about women employees being called the "b" word and also that employees are happier when they work with people of the same sex. When asked why she was not surprised to hear that employees like to work with members of the same sex, she said that the possibility of romantic relationships between them decreases, with the exception of homosexual individuals, which increases the professionalism of the relationship(s). This would increase their happiness.
Cara Eskelsen
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