This is something Nell Scovell experienced first-hand when working on TV shows, such as Late Night with David Letterman, The Simpsons and Newhart, when she was usually the only female writer in the room.

“Like a lot of women in the workplace, I was aware of this bias, so I made a conscious effort to not give anyone the chance to label me as “crazy” or “difficult”, she wrote in an essay for Oprah.com.

“Be being tough and unemotional, I was not acting ‘like a man’. Just the opposite. My male colleagues emoted like crazy. After a tough notes session with the network, a male writer walked into the room, screamed an obscenity and threw his script across the table.

“It struck me that anger is an emotion too. But nobody thought he was ‘hysterical’. When a man storms out of the room, he’s passionate. When a woman storms out, she’s unstable and unprofessional.”

The study exposes yet another double-standard that women face at work.

Worse still, this bias continues to perpetuate the dangerous myth that women are too emotional, which suggests they aren’t capable of coping with the kinds of responsibilities and positions that are necessary if we are ever going to achieve true equality in the workplace and pay equality across the board.

Study confirms what we long-suspected: men are “more emotional” at work than women