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"  Photo: Getty The results of some studies comparing men and women are easy to understand. (The fact that men actually prefer nice girls\u2014shocker!\u2014is one of them.) But then there are those findings that are so, well, WTF, that we truly do not comprehend how they can be supported by science, like the fact that female-named hurricanes are perceived as less dangerous. Or, today, this latest study: that women are more likely to be lied to than men in negotiations. What does this mean? That by default, females are more likely to enter such meetings and/or arguments with a predisposed disadvantage. Oh, great. According to Slate, after researchers at University of California-Berkeley and University of Pennsylvania put MBA students in a faux-negotiation scenario (regarding a real estate transaction), they found that the participants were more likely to directly lie to women. To be specific, 24 percent of the men said they lied to female partners, as opposed to just 3 percent who lied to males. And lest you think we just have oblivious men to blame, the women participants were also guilty (although not to the same extent)\u201417 percent lied to other women, while 11 percent lied to men. (So okay, we&amp;#039;re apparently bigger liars, but that&amp;#039;s beside the point.) And here&amp;#039;s the real kicker: All parties involved were more likely to give preferential treatment to the men, saying things like &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m not supposed to tell you this,&amp;quot; and saying no such thing to the females involved. Why? Because participants even noted that the women seemed less competent than the men. Slate highlights the real issue at hand here: It&amp;#039;s fair to say that it&amp;#039;s a pretty common stereotype that women are worse at negotiating than men. This study essentially offers scientific support of that notion, since there are now numbers to show just how females are treated differently in these bargaining situations.  So is all lost? Are we doomed to less viable real estate options, not-as-stellar job perks, and lost debates? Is this somewhat to blame for our salary gap? Fortunately, the scientists can offer some advice. Study leader Laura Kray suggests that women make their confidence obvious in these types of scenarios\u2014citing Sheryl Sandberg&amp;#039;s Lean In method for optimal results. Not a problem, but we still really wish we didn&amp;#039;t have to &amp;quot;prepare&amp;quot; our behavior because of a ridiculous, society-engrained stereotype. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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