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Does Being Ambitious Make Women “Undateable”? Hell No!

Does Being Ambitious Make Women “Undateable”? Hell No!

Women were told we could be anything we wanted. So why is women’s ambition still penalized at home and at work?

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Dr. Kate Balestrieri
Mar 21, 2023
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“Positioning women as the problem is a tale as old as time,” says Stefanie O'Connell Rodriguez.

“We have been bending ourselves into pretzels to figure out how to be everything to everyone with the exact right mix of ambition and niceness and leadership and submission. Instead of telling women what they need to do differently, it's time that we rethink …

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