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bbgrunt

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5. it is sort of a catch22 bind. One can
Sun Feb 22, 2015, 07:25 PM
Feb 2015

only hope that more women in these jobs as role models will eventually help dissipate some of the problem. Breaking barriers/shattering ceilings in male-dominated areas has never been an easy path, but it must be done--whether or not the kind of women to do so and succeed tend to be less "likeable".
Respect, rather than likeability should be the goal.

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