Congratulations to SCOOP PhD researcher Paula Hoffman on her new article!
In “Workplace friendships of men and women: examining employee gender, manager gender and gender composition in European workplaces”, published in Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Paula and her co-authors (SCOOP colleagues Eva Jaspers, Tanja van der Lippe, and Jojanneke van der Toorn) examine how gender affects workplace friendships. The researchers studied the number of friends men and women tend to have in the workplace, and whether men and women are more likely to have same- or mixed-gender friends. Paula and her co-authors found that women usually have more workplace friendships than men – and that both men and women prefer to make friends with people of the same gender. Furthermore, if an employee is of the same gender as their manager, they will have more workplace friends of their gender.
Curious to learn more? You can read the scientific article here.
