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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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 15 2015, @05:11PM
that make more than their husbands. Heck, I know one woman that makes considerably more than her x-husband (now she is unmarried) and they didn't sign prenups when they got married and she wasn't making a lot of money at the time and now they are fighting over who owns what in court. People always try to make us men out to be the victims of community property laws but what they don't realize is that it goes both ways, if the women end up making more than the man then the man can also claim half. So you women may want to also consider a prenup agreement as well especially in this day and age where women make a lot more relative to men than they used to (but remember those prenup agreements go both ways).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 15 2015, @06:39PM
I know a few women
Congratulations.
Can we please not adopt the solidus-fullstop website's commenters' habit of putting part of the comment in the subject line?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 15 2015, @08:04PM
Anecdotal evidence does not prove or disprove a trend. The study does not claim this situation is inevitable, just widely prevalent, and your point does not refute that assertion. It would be just as nonsensical to counter the claim that many snake species are poisonous by bringing up the fact that you know some that are not poisonous.