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Why Women Stay Out of the Spotlight at Work

Harvard Business Review

Yet when women try to make themselves more visible, they can face backlash for violating expectations about how women should behave, and risk losing their hard-won career gains. In 2013 we embedded ourselves in a women’s professional development program at a large nonprofit organization in the U.S. to find out.

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Why Women Stay Out of the Spotlight at Work

Harvard Business Review

Yet when women try to make themselves more visible, they can face backlash for violating expectations about how women should behave, and risk losing their hard-won career gains. In 2013 we embedded ourselves in a women’s professional development program at a large nonprofit organization in the U.S. to find out.