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6 Things Successful Women in STEM Have in Common

Harvard Business Review

Yet many other women have managed to build highly successful careers with degrees in STEM disciplines. We hear, in interviews and focus groups, that women are consistently spoken over and even robbed of their ideas. How did they do it? Yet 82% of women in STEM say their contributions are ignored.

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U.S. Latinos Feel They Can’t Be Themselves at Work

Harvard Business Review

As one Latino focus group participant said, “I look up, see no one like myself, and have to wonder if there is a future here for me.” CTI research on diversity and innovation found that 56% of employees say that leaders at their companies fail to see value in ideas for which they don’t personally see a need.

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Why Women Aren’t Making It to the Top of Financial Services Firms

Harvard Business Review

In the 1980s, however, pioneering women began moving into management roles and into frontline business areas, such as investment banking. Career progression analysis also shows that at each level, men are promoted at materially higher rates than women. ” What explains the poor career prospects of women in financial services?

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Does Female Ambition Require Sacrifice?

Harvard Business Review

Indeed, senior managers in CWLP focus groups admit that, after years spent clawing their way up the ladder, they didn't want the top job after all. "I We want to have executive women teach other senior-level women," explains chief diversity officer Rosalind Hudnell.

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