on leadership

http://blogs.hbr.org/hbr/hbreditors/2013/09/ambitious_women_face_more_obst.html?utm_source=Socialflow&utm_medium=Tweet&utm_campaign=Socialflow

"The basic idea: we become leaders iteratively, by taking increasingly challenging roles, learning, and then having our performance affirmed by those around us. For women, this process is often interrupted for a simple reason: when women display leadership behaviors we consider normative in men, we see them as unfeminine. When women act more feminine, we don't see them as leaders."