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AnnaMarie Houlis
"So many of us have gotten ourselves at the table, but we're still too grateful to be at the table to really shake it up," Obama said about women in the workforce. "That's not a criticism, because for so many, just getting to the table was so hard, so you're just holding on. But now we have to take some risks for our girls… just holding on to our seats at the table won't be enough to help our girls be all that they can be."
Almost 70 percent of men in the study were asked about their aspirations about making money for investors. Meanwhile, the women were asked about how they planned to avoid losing investor's money. Dana Kanze, the study’s author, says women are set up for failure right from the start.
And it's not just any kind of failure, because all of the aforementioned examples prove that it's indeed OK to fail, so long as you "fail up."
AnnaMarie Houlis is a multimedia journalist and an adventure aficionado with a keen cultural curiosity and an affinity for solo travel. She's an editor by day and a travel blogger at HerReport.org by night.
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