Every once in a while an obscure study by little-known academics carries a mind-set-altering message. This one, reported in the Harvard Magazine (October 2007), may suggest a cure for machismo.
Robin J. Ely is a professor at the Harvard Business school and knows a thing or two about King of the Jungle behavior in the workplace, but she wanted to study “masculine norms” in an even less refined environment; so she set off to visit two oil drilling platforms in the Gulf of Mexico to examine macho in what she assumed …