“As they do grow older and more mature in their careers, [women] lose some fear of speaking their mind. And certain men don’t like that,” Amy Diehl, one of the study’s coauthors, told HuffPost.3 Sound the distress alarm! “Men will allow women into the workplace … and will be supportive of women in the workplace to the extent that women are compliant, supportive of the men, and they don’t push back.”

