Too sweet, or too shrill? The double bind for women

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BPC Staff | Nov 14, 2016 | 2:00 pm |

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What explains the dearth of women in top leadership positions? Is it bias, a lack of role models, the old boy's club? It goes deeper.

What explains the dearth of women in top leadership positions? Is it bias, a lack of role models, the old boy’s club? It goes deeper. “It is really the very, very fine line of being a shrew on one hand and a puppet on the other that any woman in public life has to walk,” former U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley Braun told National Public Radio. Read more