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posted by CoolHand on Sunday November 15 2015, @03:25PM   Printer-friendly
from the the-confidence-game dept.

Evidence shows that women are less self-assured than men—and that to succeed, confidence matters as much as competence. Here's why, and what to do about it.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/05/the-confidence-gap/359815/

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The elusive nature of confidence has intrigued us ever since we started work on our 2009 book, Womenomics, which looked at the many positive changes unfolding for women. To our surprise, as we talked with women, dozens of them, all accomplished and credentialed, we kept bumping up against a dark spot that we couldn't quite identify, a force clearly holding them back. Why did the successful investment banker mention to us that she didn't really deserve the big promotion she'd just got? What did it mean when the engineer who'd been a pioneer in her industry for decades told us offhandedly that she wasn't sure she was really the best choice to run her firm's new big project? In two decades of covering American politics as journalists, we realized, we have between us interviewed some of the most influential women in the nation. In our jobs and our lives, we walk among people you would assume brim with confidence. And yet our experience suggests that the power centers of this nation are zones of female self-doubt—that is, when they include women at all.


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 15 2015, @03:30PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 15 2015, @03:30PM (#263659)

    Evidence shows that men are less able to give birth than women—and that to have a child, having a womb matters as much as having sex. Here's why, and what to do about it.

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