Eww

I fully admit - after doing my reading for this post I had to go get a bottle of hand sanitizer and add it to my desk supplies. Then I used it before I began typing.

Why?

Well, I'm a woman. According to a recent study by Dr. Charles Gerba (not incidentally funded by Clorox) of germs in the workplace, women are dirty.

Desks, phones, computer mice, and keyboards are all havens for bacteria and women's desks are likely to be many times nastier than men's. The blame for the latter fact falls on stashed food -- women are a lot likelier than men to stash a snack in or around their desk.

The only thing that makes it kind of okay is that the dirtiest surface in the office didn't belong to women. That's right guys, it's time to wash that wallet! Apparently the germiest surface around, including women's purses, which all the researchers thought would be top of the list, is a man's wallet.

If you want to read more, check out Clorox's press release on the subject. But make sure you have some hand sanitizer and alcohol swabs handy, you'll want them by the time you finish reading.