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The gender qualification gap: women ‘over-invest’ in workplace capabilities

The gender qualification gap: women ‘over-invest’ in workplace capabilities

It took a Nobel Prize before Canadian physicist Donna Strickland got promoted to a full professorship. As anecdotal evidence that women have to prove themselves even more than men to earn a job promotion, her story is hard to beat. Looking deeper, it’s more complex than outright sexism. Strickland herself dismissed suggestions her career had ever been stymied […] … learn more→