On August 21, 2009
Is Workplace Inequality Still In Place — Or Just In Women’s Minds?
To many, women’s business fashions of the 1980s — the shoulder pads and the power suits — were evidence of women trying to fit into a man’s world. While the shoulder pads were thankfully ditched some time ago, evidence abounds that women still suffer insecurities about their workplace standing. Recently, a study led by Professor Scott N. Taylor of the Anderson School of Management at the University of New Mexico found that women managers asked to predict how their supervisors, peers and employees rated them often believed that they were being rated lower than they actually were. Men, on the other hand, were right on target with their predictions, and in some cases, overestimated their standing. While this might sound…
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