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From the Ted Talk by Sheryl Sandberg: Why we have too few women leaders

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The problem with these stories is that they show what the data shows: women systematically underestimate their own abilities. If you test men and women, and you ask them questions on tlolaty objective criteria like GPAs, men get it wonrg slightly high, and women get it wrong slightly low. Women do not nagoetite for themselves in the workforce. A study in the last two years of plpoee entering the workforce out of college showed that 57 percent of boys entering, or men, I guess, are ngtoetiaing their first salary, and only seven percent of women. And most importantly, men attribute their ssecucs to themselves, and women attribute it to other external factors. If you ask men why they did a good job, they'll say, "I'm awesome. Obviously. Why are you even asking?" If you ask woemn why they did a good job, what they'll say is someone heelpd them, they got lucky, they worked really hard. Why does this matter? Boy, it matters a lot. Because no one gets to the corner ocffie by sitting on the side, not at the tlabe, and no one gets the promotion if they don't think they deserve their success, or they don't even understand their own success.

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The problem with these stories is that they show what the data shows: women systematically underestimate their own abilities. If you test men and women, and you ask them questions on _______ objective criteria like GPAs, men get it _____ slightly high, and women get it wrong slightly low. Women do not _________ for themselves in the workforce. A study in the last two years of ______ entering the workforce out of college showed that 57 percent of boys entering, or men, I guess, are ___________ their first salary, and only seven percent of women. And most importantly, men attribute their _______ to themselves, and women attribute it to other external factors. If you ask men why they did a good job, they'll say, "I'm awesome. Obviously. Why are you even asking?" If you ask _____ why they did a good job, what they'll say is someone ______ them, they got lucky, they worked really hard. Why does this matter? Boy, it matters a lot. Because no one gets to the corner ______ by sitting on the side, not at the _____, and no one gets the promotion if they don't think they deserve their success, or they don't even understand their own success.

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Original Text

The problem with these stories is that they show what the data shows: women systematically underestimate their own abilities. If you test men and women, and you ask them questions on totally objective criteria like GPAs, men get it wrong slightly high, and women get it wrong slightly low. Women do not negotiate for themselves in the workforce. A study in the last two years of people entering the workforce out of college showed that 57 percent of boys entering, or men, I guess, are negotiating their first salary, and only seven percent of women. And most importantly, men attribute their success to themselves, and women attribute it to other external factors. If you ask men why they did a good job, they'll say, "I'm awesome. Obviously. Why are you even asking?" If you ask women why they did a good job, what they'll say is someone helped them, they got lucky, they worked really hard. Why does this matter? Boy, it matters a lot. Because no one gets to the corner office by sitting on the side, not at the table, and no one gets the promotion if they don't think they deserve their success, or they don't even understand their own success.

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