Are married women bullied less at work?

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Are women who are married less likely to be bullied than a single woman with no kids??

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.

What do you mean by being bullied?

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excluded, ostracized, picked on, etc

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Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.

I'm not sure what being married would have to do with it, but I suppose anything is possible.

Bullying doesn't exist to the extent that you'd believe just by reading AN. Nor does it exist in nursing and more than anywhere else.

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No. Marital status has absolutely nothing to do with who gets picked on and who doesn't, in my opinion.

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Specializes in NICU, ICU, PICU, Academia.

Why do you ask, OP?

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No, anyone at any time can be the victim of a bully. That one does or does not have a spouse or kids has nothing to do with it.

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it would depend on the bully...

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Specializes in Nurse Leader specializing in Labor & Delivery.

Bullying doesn't exist to the extent that you'd believe just by reading AN.

I'm considering using this as my signature line.

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Maybe bullying in the sense of management asking you to work extra shifts...somehow if you're married and have kids your free time is worth more than mine because I'm single.

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.
excluded, ostracized, picked on, etc

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent" Eleanor Roosevelt

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Specializes in Nurse Leader specializing in Labor & Delivery.
Maybe bullying in the sense of management asking you to work extra shifts

If that's the case, I wish we would quit using the word "bullying." That is not bullying.

That word, you keep using it. I do not think it means what you think it means.

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