Following the leader

Corinne Low, assistant professor at Wharton, has been studying gender differences in communication styles, how men and women negotiate. She did a lot of the data collecting last October and November. She noticed a big change after the election.

On the whole, negotiating partners were more adversarial in their chat-based communication threads. In particular, men were more aggressive when they negotiated with counterparts they knew they were female, using hardball tactics more often.
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"Not only was the communication more aggressive, it was also less effective," she said.