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The confidence cliff

Woman are rocking it in the workplace more and more. We now live in a society where 7 in 10 young women aged 25-43 are actively in the workforce and women are outpacing men in college degrees. Things are changing, and achieving gender equality in the workplace could affect the global GDP by 12 trillion dollars – long story short: the number of women in the workplace matters.

These progressive women smashing down barriers in the workplace might not all fit same mold—they’re designers, engineers, writers, developers and everything in between—but they’re all talented, smart and not afraid to put in the work to see change.

Though all of this is amazing, research still shows a woman’s aspirations and confidence drops significantly in mid-career—something that’s simply not the case for men. The numbers are dramatic. At the beginning of their careers, women have more desire than men to reach leadership positions. Over time though, women’s ambitions drop 60% while men’s stay the same – after 2 years, 34% of men are still aiming for the top, while only 16% of women do.

So what’s going on here? It’s called the “confidence cliff”—the sudden, seemingly unscalable obstacles women come up against that result in the dramatic decline of career aspirations. Whether it’s the fact that they’re less likely to outwardly flaunt their confidence in the workplace, or a case of ‘imposter syndrome’ (internalizing your accomplishments and a fear of being exposed as a fraud) that’s making women less likely to seek opportunities, it all adds up to a world where amazing women aren’t feeling confident enough to make the changes they want to see.

Looks like all these years later, millennial women could do with a little of Emmé’s inspiring courage.

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“I HAVE NOTICED MYSELF WALKING TALLER AND EVEN CAUGHT MY REFLECTION AT A STORE AND THOUGHT, ‘WOW! LOOK AT THAT CONFIDENCE!'”

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