I saw a programme on the BBC a few weeks ago (I'm not sure what it was called, it was presented by successful entrepreneur Hilary Devey), and one of the things it mentioned was how women and men work in teams in a business context. Men in business tend to be very authoritative, and having a lot of men in a team led to them arguing and acting defensively against each other instead of working together. The women were the opposite; initially too democratic to form a strong decision and then going the way of the men anyway. The mixed sex team always gave the best results in the fastest time because they competed not to make each other seem worse as the same-sex teams did, but to make themselves seem best. They were driven by friendly competition, not passive-aggression.
Not strictly on topic, but I thought it was interesting. A male-female balance is a good thing. Obviously there's exceptions and same-sex teams which do well and mixed-sex teams that are crap.
TL;DR: Studies show mixed-sex work-places perform better than all-men or all-women so your dislike is normal. Also some people just don't like working with women/men, which is also normal :P
Is it normal to hate working with all one sex?
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I saw a programme on the BBC a few weeks ago (I'm not sure what it was called, it was presented by successful entrepreneur Hilary Devey), and one of the things it mentioned was how women and men work in teams in a business context. Men in business tend to be very authoritative, and having a lot of men in a team led to them arguing and acting defensively against each other instead of working together. The women were the opposite; initially too democratic to form a strong decision and then going the way of the men anyway. The mixed sex team always gave the best results in the fastest time because they competed not to make each other seem worse as the same-sex teams did, but to make themselves seem best. They were driven by friendly competition, not passive-aggression.
Not strictly on topic, but I thought it was interesting. A male-female balance is a good thing. Obviously there's exceptions and same-sex teams which do well and mixed-sex teams that are crap.
TL;DR: Studies show mixed-sex work-places perform better than all-men or all-women so your dislike is normal. Also some people just don't like working with women/men, which is also normal :P