Studies have proven time and time again that women are generally risk averse. It is that very tendency that has protected them throughout history, and fortified female business leaders as recently as this decade. But if women hope to get to the corner office and break through glass ceilings, they have got to be prepared to try, to fail, and to get back up again.
A new poll conducted for Time and Real Simple magazines suggests that an unwillingness to fail or a fear of doing anything that could lead to failure might be standing in the way of women’s progress. While missteps happen to everyone, this poll suggests that women fear them more and perhaps don’t bounce back from them quite so readily. This is significant, because of the impact it has on the ongoing conversation about why women occupy leadership roles in much smaller numbers than their education, their ability and their experience would suggest.
Despite recent conversation, according to this poll it isn’t a lack of self-confidence that’s holding women back. We need more women in politics, we need more women in business and industry and we need more women ready and willing to try and fail, learn from their mistakes, and jump back in.
As Belinda Luscombe writes in Time:
Go forth, ladies and louse up.
Muff it.
Make a blunder.
Botch it up royally.
Make a complete balls of it.
The guys do it all the time.
Just before they get promoted.
Source
- Read more about the poll results in Time.
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