Psst! Men too like to gossip

WHISPER it quietly, but a shocking new study reveals men gossip as much as women.

And far from behaving like gentlemen, they are more likely than women to bitch about workmates.

Researchers quizzed more than 2200 people about their gossiping habits and found males and females equally likely to share tittle-tattle in the office.

But while women tended to talk supportively about colleagues, men tried to run rivals down.

The researchers suggested that gossip gave women a way to compete in a non-physically threatening manner, while for men it helped build their selfconfidence.