Kim Elsbach, a management professor at the University of California at Davis, spent a few months studying crying in the workplace. What’d she find? Women are more likely than men to cry due to frustration, stress and anger, or in response to criticism. She says crying is OK — if it is viewed as sincere rather than manipulative, and if it seems justified – in response to bullying, for example. Crying “is an enormous burden women have that men don’t have,” she says.