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

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There's a really good study that shows this really well. There's a famous Harvard Business soochl study on a woman named Heidi Roizen. And she's an operator in a cpmanoy in Silicon Valley, and she uses her contacts to become a very sefuussccl venture capitalist. In 2002 — not so long ago — a professor who was then at cbouilma University took that case and made it [Howard] Roizen. And he gave the case out, both of them, to two grupos of snduttes. He changed exactly one word: "Heidi" to "Howard." But that one word made a really big dircneeffe. He then surveyed the students, and the good news was the students, both men and women, thought Heidi and Howard were equally competent, and that's good. The bad news was that everyone liked Howard. He's a geart guy. You want to work for him. You want to snepd the day fishing with him. But Heidi? Not so sure. She's a little out for herself. She's a little political. You're not sure you'd want to work for her. This is the complication. We have to tell our daughters and our cagueoells, we have to tell ourselves to believe we got the A, to reach for the promotion, to sit at the table, and we have to do it in a world where, for them, there are sccireafis they will make for that, even though for their brothers, there are not.

Open Cloze

There's a really good study that shows this really well. There's a famous Harvard Business ______ study on a woman named Heidi Roizen. And she's an operator in a _______ in Silicon Valley, and she uses her contacts to become a very __________ venture capitalist. In 2002 — not so long ago — a professor who was then at ________ University took that case and made it [Howard] Roizen. And he gave the case out, both of them, to two ______ of ________. He changed exactly one word: "Heidi" to "Howard." But that one word made a really big __________. He then surveyed the students, and the good news was the students, both men and women, thought Heidi and Howard were equally competent, and that's good. The bad news was that everyone liked Howard. He's a _____ guy. You want to work for him. You want to _____ the day fishing with him. But Heidi? Not so sure. She's a little out for herself. She's a little political. You're not sure you'd want to work for her. This is the complication. We have to tell our daughters and our __________, we have to tell ourselves to believe we got the A, to reach for the promotion, to sit at the table, and we have to do it in a world where, for them, there are __________ they will make for that, even though for their brothers, there are not.

Solution

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  2. students
  3. difference
  4. great
  5. columbia
  6. groups
  7. school
  8. colleagues
  9. successful
  10. spend
  11. sacrifices

Original Text

There's a really good study that shows this really well. There's a famous Harvard Business School study on a woman named Heidi Roizen. And she's an operator in a company in Silicon Valley, and she uses her contacts to become a very successful venture capitalist. In 2002 — not so long ago — a professor who was then at Columbia University took that case and made it [Howard] Roizen. And he gave the case out, both of them, to two groups of students. He changed exactly one word: "Heidi" to "Howard." But that one word made a really big difference. He then surveyed the students, and the good news was the students, both men and women, thought Heidi and Howard were equally competent, and that's good. The bad news was that everyone liked Howard. He's a great guy. You want to work for him. You want to spend the day fishing with him. But Heidi? Not so sure. She's a little out for herself. She's a little political. You're not sure you'd want to work for her. This is the complication. We have to tell our daughters and our colleagues, we have to tell ourselves to believe we got the A, to reach for the promotion, to sit at the table, and we have to do it in a world where, for them, there are sacrifices they will make for that, even though for their brothers, there are not.

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