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# The Ripple Effects of Assholes: When Women Are Treated Badly, Everyone Suffers
- URL: https://katecarruthers.com/the-ripple-effects-of-assholes-when-women-are-treated-badly-everyone-suffers/
- Published: 2009-01-14T22:13:00.000Z
- Updated: 2009-01-14T22:13:00.000Z
- Author: Kate Carruthers
- Tags: ideas, #Migrated-1775015344493, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-04-01 14:49

Just came across this old post from [Bob Sutton](http://bobsutton.typepad.com/my%5Fweblog/?ref=katecarruthers.com) (well known anti-asshole activist) is worth noting - in summary according to a study in the *Journal of Applied Psychology*:

"Witnessing the harassment or uncivil treatment of women at work is bad not only for female employees, but for the productivity of the whole organisation."

[Read more here...](http://bobsutton.typepad.com/my%5Fweblog/2007/11/the-ripple-effe.html?ref=katecarruthers.com)

This in turn let me to ponder the interconnectedness of humans and reminded me of Donne's famous verse:

"...No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee..."