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Killing Yourself with Kindness

Published: 1 November 2010

A 2007 study called Does It Pay to Be Nice? compared personality types and annual income in the U.K. and found "agreeable" women make as much as 6.5 percent less than their more assertive coworkers. Chantal Westgate, professor of organizational behaviour at Ï㽶ÊÓƵ in Montreal, isn't surprised: "Assertive women get more things done, they influence the decision-makers, they're an asset to the company and therefore earn more."

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