I think women fear ambition. They fear the word not the intent. Why? Ambition means that one has a desire for personal achievement and women are socialized to defer to others, primarily male others. Society strongly encourages them to take on supporting roles and calls them aggressive, bitches, un-feminine and unattractive, if they seek personal achievement. It shuns and shames them. Little wonder women will never admit they’re ambitious.
Just because they won’t admit it however, doesn’t mean they don’t want it. The real shame, is that while men have a whole support system behind them to make sure that they are successful, women work twice as hard on their own, keeping their desire for achievement locked in their hearts.
Think that we’ve come too far for this to be true? Think again. The double standard is alive and well and the stereotypes are thriving. While we’ve made strides in having record number of women entering med schools and graduating law, the reality once women enter the workforce not only obliterates those strides, it downright regresses them.
Here's an interesting article on this:
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