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Working with men is bad for your health, researchers say

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Men cause high stress levels. (Picture: The IT Crowd/Channel 4)

Yet another reason to ban men.

A new study from the Indiana University Bloomington has found that working in male-dominated offices can do serious damage to female employees’ health.

In a large US survey, researchers studied the stress hormones of more than 440 women who worked in offices where at least 85% of the workforce were men.

They found that women working in these strongly male-dominated environments had unhealthier patterns of cortisol – the damaging stress hormone – than those who worked in more gender balanced offices.

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