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Can Women Show That They, Too, Sometimes Get Sick?
Hillary Clinton took time off from her presidential campaign to recover from pneumonia. But this didn’t happen without her first trying to push the limits.
Women fear being perceived as weak at work, as this Washington Post column discusses. We write frequently about the career problems a woman faces if she is seen as too “communal” (showing her warm and caring side) or too “agentic” (showing her competence and power). We call this the “Goldilocks Dilemma.” For career success, a woman must be both communal and agentic. And she must dial these traits up and down as needed. Read more here.