The soft war against women

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10. An outstanding article!

I thought this was amazing:

Women’s gains are hard won and easily lost. New research shows that even when women reach the top in male-dominated professions, they are vulnerable. Yale researchers found that if such women made small mistakes — even a single gaffe — they were more likely to fall from that position than a man would be. The phenomenon is known as “the Glass Cliff.” Another aspect of the “Cliff” “is that women are overrepresented in precarious leadership roles associated with high risk and an increased chance of failure.” In fact, according to a team of British researchers, women were only appointed over qualified men to the top job when there was a high risk of failure.

That last sentence especially galls me. I can just hear the boys in the boardroom, "Let's put a woman in that position & if she fails we can blame it on the fact that she's a woman." And I can imagine how supportive management was to that woman.