78% of women have been labelled as "emotional" in work performance reviews compared to just 11% of men, new research has found.

The study by Texito analysed reviews of over 25,000 people from 253 organisations.

The research also found that 56% were described as "unlikeable" in these reviews, compared to 16% of men.

While 67% of men received feedback that they were "intelligent", compared to only 32% of women.

On Lunchtime Live, HR Suite director Caroline Reidy said women are far more likely to be described as "emotional" at work, while men are seen as being "assertive".

"The bias that lies in peoples' subconsciousness that they don’t even realise is what we’re seeing really come to the fore here," she said.

"78% of women being described as emotional compared to 11% of men I think no way reflects reality."

The study also found 76% of high-performing women received negative feedback compared to 2% of high-performing men.

"There's a much more weighted element of negativity [towards women] in comparison to high-performing men," Ms Reidy said.

"That would imply that we’re much tougher on giving women constructive and negative feedback than we are on men.” 

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Ms Reidy said the study demonstrates a need to challenge gender bias in the workplace.

"These figures are a really good reminder that gender-based language bias is still alive and well," she said.

"It's our obligation and our responsibility to make sure we’re constantly doing refresher training, objective bias training and really helping people get to the root of this."

Ms Reidy said she hopes the study will lead to constructive conversations about challenging biases of all kind in the workplace.

"The main benefit of the survey is it is encouraging us to look at gender-based language bias and objective bias in general - which I think is a good thing to get us all to do that," she said.

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