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女职员工作更努力 Women employees work harder and longer than men do, according to a new study by independent research consultancy the Ponemon Institute. 独立研究咨询机构波耐蒙研究所的一项新研究称，女职员工作比男职员更努力，工作时间也更长。 ? Among the subjects that took part in trials across the US, females consistently（一致地） worked for a longer period of time during a ten-minute experiment than their male colleagues. ? Researchers also discovered that men are even less productive when women are around. ? The experiment was originally intended to observe the effect of 3M privacy filters - thin panels that fit onto a monitor, allowing only the user to view their computer screen - on productivity in the workplace. ? But the study ended up revealing that with or without a privacy filter, women are more productive than men in the workplace. ? Of the 274 subjects, who all worked in financial services, consumer products, education, health care and energy, approximately 53 percent of the subjects were female, and 47 percent were male. ? When working with a privacy filter, females worked 4.9 minutes during a ten-minute experimental trial, while men worked 4.3 minutes. ? And even without a privacy filter, females worked 2.5 minutes during ten minutes, while male subjects worked for just 2.1 minutes in the same amount of time. ? Not only do women work longer, but they also apparently work harder than their male counterparts. ? When subjects were given the opportunity to walk away during an experimental waiting period, just 38 percent of women left their desk, while 52 percent of men did. ? Moreover, men were found to be less productive if a woman was around. ? When the researcher and subject were both male, the average time worked was 3.6 minutes. When they were both female, productivity rose to four minutes. ? But with a female researcher and a male subject, the time worked dropped to just 2.8 minutes.