{"id":566,"date":"2014-12-25T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2014-12-25T13:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/annelitwin.com\/?p=566"},"modified":"2014-12-25T09:00:31","modified_gmt":"2014-12-25T13:00:31","slug":"women-in-a-mans-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/blog-posts\/women-in-a-mans-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Women in a Man\u2019s World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[The dearth mentality can also result in women, and members of\u00a0other socially devalued groups, going out of their way not to give special\u00a0treatment to those like them\u2014and often even treat them more harshly.\u00a0Sometimes this decision is conscious, but it is probably more often\u00a0unconscious. In an article in a special section of the <em>New York Times<\/em> in\u00a0April 2013, entitled \u201cWomen in a Man\u2019s World,\u201d female executives on\u00a0Wall Street were interviewed and asked why so few women had made\u00a0it to the senior ranks. In interview after interview, the female executives\u00a0blamed themselves for not trying to change the status quo. One of the\u00a0executives, Irene Dorner, the chief executive of HSBC USA, explained\u00a0that throughout her career she had \u201ckept her head down, focusing on\u00a0her own career.\u201d She acknowledged that she and the other female\u00a0executives in the financial industry had not been very good role models\u00a0and had not spoken out or complained about misogynistic comments\u00a0and discriminatory practices.\nThe executive women interviewed for the <em>New York Times<\/em> article\u00a0were usually the only women at their levels in their companies. Having\u00a0limited spaces at the top means that the few women who are there can\u2019t\u00a0change things alone, so the status quo can continue undisturbed. The\u00a0junior women in a company may believe a senior woman is choosing not\u00a0to do anything to help other women when the truth is that the senior\u00a0woman may feel that her hands are tied. The pressure for lone women\u00a0who make it to the top to keep their focus on proving themselves to the\u00a0men, while not being perceived as threatening, is intense.\nAn excerpt from my book,\u00a0<em>New Rules for Women<\/em>, available at Amazon (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0982056982\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0982056982\/<\/a>).]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[169,207,222,418,557,612,634],"class_list":["post-566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-posts","category-excerpt","tag-emotions","tag-feminine-values","tag-friendship-rules","tag-new-rules","tag-support","tag-women","tag-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}