PThis week, Achlel Reeves tears raised a decrease in the pound and attracted a wide ridicule of the book of political columns, most of them males. “What is wrong with Rachel Reeves?” Telegraph request. In an article entitled “The meaning of the advisor’s tears”, New column Readers told the Reeves Authority “began to melt.” Daily Mail I spoke about her “water business”.
But in the long run, the advisor’s offer to distress may have an unexpected positive heritage, which leads to the normalization of a phenomenon that is still largely designed – women’s tears at the workplace.
To date, the devastating explosions at work have been often mired in shame, the source of severe embarrassment. The direct broadcast of this week can help the consultant’s silent tears in changing taboos, with a highlight of a slightly discussed fact: sometimes women cry at work, not a big problem.
Reeves was reflected in her tears with ignoring a day. “People saw that I was upset, but that was yesterday. Today a new day and I just deal with the job,” She said on Thursday. She refused to explain what paid her distress, simply described it as a personal issue and refused to enter the details. Within 24 hours The markets wore again With the assurances of Prime Minister, Care Starmer, that she will remain in its long -term job.
It is clear that it is far from being perfect It was filmed in crying During the most watched exchanges in the House of Commons, the ministerial jobs are very difficult. Some of the male Rivs ancestors showed the strain of their roles in more extreme ways – with less attention, because their behavior is classified as routine and acceptable.
When the former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was exhausted and under pressure, he was known to be vulnerable to volcanic explosions. Description of one biography How Braun stabbed the Jaguar cabinet seat with his pen in anger. Bloomberg She stated that a new assistant was warned of “Flying Nokias” monitoring when he joined the Brown team (although a Brown spokesman said at that time that this “is not an account I get to know”).
Reeves’s tears were widely considered as a sign that she was losing control. Braun’s anger has been forgiven by many as just an unfortunate western exposed by a leader under pressure.
The research constantly confirms what we know instinctively – that women are crying more frequently than men. So it makes sense that, as we see more women in the upper leadership roles, the scene of a strong woman in crying should become less prominent. It will be strange to celebrate it, because it is a stressful phenomenon and is often useful, but Reeves may help her to better understand it as a different way to express professional frustration or respond to pressure.
The voting conducted by Yougov in the United Kingdom I revealed this 34 % of men claim that they never cried in the previous year, compared to only 7 % of women; 18 % of women said they cried at least once a week, compared to only 4 % of men. Culture behavior varies, but this is still a widespread global phenomenon: Study 2011 Of 5,715 participants from 37 countries, women found more likely to cry and were more likely to cry.
This week, the former leader in Germany Angela Merkel revealed It “exploded from crying” during a meeting with US President Barack Obama, on how to deal with the Greek debt crisis in 2015. Theresa May He was on the verge of tears When she stepped down as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in May 2019, her voice and lips flowing while standing outside the Downing Street Street, and told the collected journalists that it was the honor of her life “to serve the country that I love.” Margaret Thatcher was crying when she was driven by Downing Street in the 1990s. In contrast, David Cameron Spoil Once again within the 10th after the resignation letter in 2016.
Obama cried from time to time when the president was, but often generous occasions, driven by the tragic events, such as shooting at school students During a speech on arms control. His tears were not unattractive and unaccounted, messy and insulting, but he was often seen as Prayer expressions From his humanity. Vladimir Putin Look A decade ago during a soft rocky song lies the courage of the Russian police force, but this was also a different type of tears.
Political behavior in Britain was slow to change, despite the general rapid makeup. In 2024, the UK saw an election The largest number of female deputies I was ever recorded. There are now 264 women in general, including 40 % of 650 seats. Since the 1997 Labor Elections, women have witnessed twice from 9 % to 18 %, there has been a fixed increase – but the combat of the combat institution has almost changed.
“We have years of men screaming, mocking, and rich, even asleep in this room, so we should not exaggerate the reaction of a woman to be thwarted with one tear,” said Benie East, CEO of the Fossit Association, a charitable organization for women’s campaigns. ))
Ask any female colleagues, and they may reluctantly recognize the struggle with the challenge of curbing tears at work, and often pushes professional frustration instead of sadness. I did this, during a difficult conversation with an editor, raising my eyes to the ceiling and tilting my head to the back, hoping that it will absorb gravity in one way or another with tears inside the channels and that no one will notice.
Women learn that it can be harmful to professionally because crying remains classified as a sign of inefficiency and weakness, which is an unacceptable appearance of tension. One of her deficient acquaintances in a big role was unilaterally small tears by her employees because she sometimes responded to difficult situations with uncomfortable tears. Her colleagues were less familiar with this appearance of professional dissatisfaction, which may be with the width of anger than males.
Another woman described crying on her third day in her new job as an executive head of a great organization. She said: “He was not direct on the media, but he was in an open plan office, and I was surrounded by great and young employees.
She was embarrassed by her tears because she could see how uncomfortable her team. “But I haven’t seen this as a loss of control. We should not assume that emotions’ offers represent the loss of control of the ability to do your work.” She believes, however, the episode has unexpectedly helped her colleagues. “They can see that I really care about what we were there to do.”
Although there is no difference in the amount of children of males and females, women are more frequently crying than men due to a complex mix of social air conditioning and biology. Adinghoets, a professor of clinical psychology at the University of Telburg in the Netherlands, has studied tear, and it is noted that testosterone works as “brakes” on crying.
“How do we test and express our emotions affected by our biology and how we have grown,” said Sophie Scott, professor of cognitive neuroscience at College University in London, who specializes in analyzing how emotions are expressed through laughter and tears.
Scott distinguished between tears produced as a result of sadness and tears caused by anger, noting that these tears of frustration and anger were more frequent than women. She said: “If you are angry and feel that you cannot do anything about it, there is a frustrating and helpless feeling that pushes you to tears.”
Scott said that women find themselves more often fighting the tears of frustration than men, adding that this may be because “angry and more aggressive responses are more acceptable in men.”
Unusually, the misery of Reeves was arrested for 30 minutes of a session at the time of the Prime Minister’s interrogation, allowing the viewers a rare and uncomfortable vision of a person who tries and failed to stop the flow, shameful lips and move down. “There is a big difference between my job and many of your viewers is that when he faces a difficult day, it is in short, and most people do not have to deal with that,” Reeves told the BBC.
Scott said that many forms of tears were difficult to control, adding: “Crying is a very honest sign. Once you adhere to it, it is very difficult to stop them. It is involuntary.”
Rosie Campbell, professor of politics at King’s College London, said she was flammable due to the negativity caused by Reeves’s tears. She said: “In our society, women are likely to cry. This does not make them worse leaders.” “I do not want to see politicians cry in the room every day, but if this happens several times in a parliamentary profession, this should not be great.
“I am more anxious about the emotionally pent -up leaders than someone who realizes that the nation’s financial security is in their hands and feels weighing it.”
