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Women Were Sold a Lot of Myths
Examining the messages women have been handed about strength, ambition, beauty and worth.
Empowerment Has Become Another Thing Women Have to Perform
"Empowerment" became such a dominant marketing category that it's now tested and scaled like any other sales metric, turning a genuine feeling into a new expectation to perform.
Women Are Too Emotional
A workplace study found identical displays of anger earned men status and cost women status, same words, same tone, opposite verdict.
Beauty Is Power
The economic "beauty premium" is real and measurably larger for men than women. The myth that beauty is uniquely a woman's power gets the data backwards.
A Woman's Biological Clock Is Her Deadline
The famous "1 in 3 women over 35 can't conceive" statistic comes from French birth records dated 1670 –1830. Modern data tells a far less alarming story.
Women Are Natural Caregivers
A brain-imaging study compared mothers, fathers, and primary-caregiving gay fathers with no maternal involvement. Caregiving itself, not gender, predicted the nurturing brain pattern.
Nice Girls Finish Last
A classic study gave students an identical résumé under two names. Same competence rating. Wildly different verdict on likability and hireability.
Women Can Have It All
Nobel laureate Claudia Goldin found the gender pay gap barely exists before a woman's first child, and mostly opens up right after, even in the same job.
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