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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