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Gender & Workplace Bullying: 2010 WBI Survey

Sunday, September 5th, 2010

New research findings from the 2010 Workplace Bullying Institute national scientific survey regarding gender and workplace bullying.

Gender of targets: 58% are women; 42% are men

Gender of perpetrators: 62% men; 38% women

Men bullies target men in 55.5% of cases; women in 45.5%

What tends to make news (based on the 2007 WBI findings) is that women bullies target women in 79.8% of cases; men in 20.2%. In 2007, the woman-on-woman bullying prevalence was 71%. Now it is 80%. Looks like the American workplace is grower ever more toxic for women, at the hands of women.

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