The Confidence gap.
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Defining the Gap
Career and the Gap
Bridging the Gap
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Defining the Gap
Career and the Gap
Bridging the Gap
Inspiration
Further Reading
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Career &
The Confidence Gap
Women earn an average of 77 cents for every dollar earned by a man, according to analysis by the
Center for American Progress
.
Women are reared to be perfectionists, and perfectionism is a confidence killer
Many women struggle with self-promotional language because that is considered the "normal female speech pattern."
Men initiate salary negotiations four times as often as women do, and that
when women do negotiate, they ask for 30 percent less
money than men do.
Confident women are often viewed as bossy or b*tchy.
Gender creates vastly different impressions. A really great example of this is the
Heidi and Howard Case Study
done at Stanford in 2007.
This is a problem!
Let's do something!