{"id":796670,"date":"2026-10-09T04:50:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T04:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/796670\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T04:50:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T04:50:22","slug":"i-rage-and-i-dont-care-why-women-are-reclaiming-their-anger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/796670\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I rage and I don&#8217;t care&#8217;: Why women are reclaiming their anger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On screen, even 2023&#8217;s smash-hit Barbie showed the iconic doll expressing frustration with her supposedly picture-perfect world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">These depictions of women&#8217;s anger are helpful and healthy, Cox says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But when women act upon their anger in real life, they can face a social penalty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A 2020 study found women expressing anger at work were seen as less deserving of status and influence, while their male counterparts were not.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">So, can women express anger at work and still get ahead? Yes, says life coach Yann Dang, who specialises in coaching senior women in male-dominated fields.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Women who people-please and don&#8217;t show negative emotion can progress to a certain level on the career ladder, but to make it to the top you need to rock the boat, she argues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Women are so good at learning the rules when we know what the rules are. But the rules in the corporate world are totally different.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The key, she says, is knowing how to harness your anger in a way that comes across as authentic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On screen, even 2023&#8217;s smash-hit Barbie showed the iconic doll expressing frustration with her supposedly picture-perfect world. These&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":796671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-796670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}