Many studies have shown that women make exemplary leaders in the game of work. Yet, you’d be forgiven for thinking otherwise if you reviewed the latest research figures from the 2022 Workplace Gender Equality Agency’s Gender Equality Scorecard. This report shows that men are twice as likely to be in the top earning bracket, and the representation of women in leadership continues to decline as the roles become more senior.

Though there are many factors at play behind these figures, there are two specific ways women get fouled on the field when playing the game of work – a game that, for the most part, was originally designed by men, for men. Though the players have changed, the rules to succeed have not, and so when today’s talented women play like men, they often get punished for not being ‘ladylike’, and when they play like women, they get punished for not being ‘leaderlike’.

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