Shed a tear, Tim Hunt: crying at work is a good idea | Hannah Ewens

The persisting prejudice against crying on the job doesn’t fit in today’s office environmentI will never forget the first time I needed to cry at work. But crying is looked down upon in the workplace as oversensitive, immature and unprofessional – the most recent example of male disdain came this week, when Nobel laureate Tim Hunt suggested that female scientists can’t take criticism without crying. So I held in my distress, and it built until, unable to conceal it anymore, I ran to the