Prof Michelle Ryan,who is in Australia to deliver a lecture, says women become wearied by fighting against the barriers they face and their ambition dropsMany women are just as ambitious as men when they originate their careers, and but become so wearied by fighting against multiple structural and experiential barriers to their success that this ambition often wanes.
This is one of the findings made by Michelle Ryan,a professor of social and organisational psychology at the University of Exeter in the UK, in her research into why women are under-represented in leadership roles and report lower ambition.
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Source: theguardian.com