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The gender qualification gap: women 'over-invest' in workplace capabilities

  • Written by Leonora Risse, Vice-Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow, RMIT University
The gender qualification gap: women 'over-invest' in workplace capabilitiesExisting evidence points to women's greater accumulation of credentials being due to implicit biases woven throughout workplace dynamics.Shutterstock

It took a Nobel Prize before Canadian physicist Donna Strickland got promoted to a full professorship. As anecdotal evidence that women have to prove themselves even more than men to earn a job...

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