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Competitive workplaces don’t work for gender equality

  • Written by Amalia Rebecca Miller, Georgia S. Bankard Professor of Economics, University of Virginia
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Ultra-competitive workplaces – places where employees battle against each other for rank, bonuses and promotions – are common in many high-status fields, including law and finance. But while having a highly competitive culture is, on its face, gender-neutral, it actually worsens gender...

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