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[quote=Anonymous]I know this is a tired topic, but it gets me riled up every time. A Harvard Business Review study confirmed it too. Women aren't leaning out or holding themselves back. The game is rigged (and often women hold each other back- that part is not mentioned except for in the comments!)

http://nymag.com/thecut/2014/12/stop-blaming-women-for-holding-themselves-back.html

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[i]"Try harder. That’s the message that women hear all around. Try harder to be happy. Try harder to be skinny. Try harder to be a good employee, mother, wife, daughter, friend. Try harder to feed your family nutritious meals and to give your child every possible opportunity. Try harder to find “flow” at work. Try harder to succeed. But, as the HBS study reminds us, when there’s a whole lot of trying without commensurate succeeding, then you have to start to consider that the game is rigged. And the risk to entertaining that thought is great indeed, for the thought that follows is a weighty one. What are we going to do about it? Perhaps the first step is to stop channeling all of that criticism inward or toward individual women and instead turn it outward. Companies need to try harder, too."[/i][/quote]

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