Why women face an ‘ambition penalty’ at work

Why women face an ‘ambition penalty’ at work

Women’s professional and public ambition remains disproportionately undermined, unsupported, and punished when they act on it.

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BY Next Big Idea Club

Below, Stefanie O’Connell shares five key insights from her new book, The Ambition Penalty: How Corporate Culture Tells Women to Step Up―and Then Pushes Them Down.

Stefanie is an award-winning financial journalist whose work has been published in Slate, Bloomberg, Newsweek, USA Today, Glamour UK, Business Insider, and CNBC.com. She wrote, hosted, and coproduced the........

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