In yet another example of how tough the workplace can be for women, CNN reports that female financial advisors at Wells Fargo Advisors are 27 percent more likely than the firm's male advisors to be canned for misconduct.

The report cites a study by professors Mark Egan of the University of Minnesota, Gregor Matvos from the University of Chicago and Amit Seru of Stanford University that was published by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

The authors studied 44 firms studied between 2005 and 2015, and found that Wells Fargo advisors had the highest rate of female workers leaving.

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