The mean pay gap

Still haven't wiped out sexism in the workplace, I notice. Even mean women are losing out and falling behind:

 Men with disagreeable personalities outearn men with agreeable personalities by about 18 percent, according to research to be published this fall in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Disagreeable women, on the other hand, earn only about 5 percent more than their sweet and gentle counterparts.

That may be because people judge no-nonsense women more harshly than no-nonsense men, said study researcher Timothy Judge of the University of Notre Dames' Mendoza College of Business. The new research also found that disagreeable women were less likely to be recommended for a promotion than disagreeable men.

College research. Who could have guessed? Surely this is reason to set up a new government bureau, the DEEOB, perhaps, the Department of Equal Employment Opportunity for . . . well, maybe not.