A Quote by Ian K. Smith

Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.

Ian K. Smith

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Avoid Because Being Competition Her Jealous Job Men Next Often Promotion Successful Successful Women Women

Quote Author

Ian K. Smith
American - Author
Born: July 15, 1969

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What works for men does not always work for women, because success and likability are positively correlated for men and negatively correlated for women. That's what the research shows. As a man gets more successful, everyone is rooting for him. As a woman gets more successful, both men and women like her less.

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Garth Greenwell

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Andrew Stanton

This is what I tell young women who ask me for career advice. People are going to try to trick you. To make you feel that you are in competition with one another. You're up for a promotion. If they go for a woman, it'll be between you and Barbara. Don't be fooled. You're not in competition with other women. You're in competition with everyone.

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Jenova Chen

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Elizabeth Gilbert

I think that the word 'ambitious' is still used in a derogatory way when it comes to women, in a way that it's not when it comes to men. It's a generalisation because not everyone is like this, but I think there's almost a love-hate relationship going on with successful women, where you can be a little bit successful and you'll be celebrated, but don't become too successful because that seems to bring out the hate in some cases. Take one glance at social media and you can see that successful women don't seem to be treated with the same respect as successful men.

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