Success Advice From Men Doesn’t Quite Work For Women

Shut up, Jimmy!

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If you feel like an imposter, you probably are. Do the work, and you won’t feel like it anymore.

This is roughly what Jimmy Carr says in his book “Before & Laughter”. We listen to the audio in the car.

It sounds simple enough. Just one thing. You’re a man, Jimmy. So shut up! You have no clue what female imposter syndrome is. We blame ourselves for anything that could possibly go wrong: even when we’ve worked more and achieved more than most men around us.

Men and women experience the world in different ways.

First, women are raised differently than men.

“Women can lack the confidence to speak up in groups,” says management professor Subrahmaniam Tangirala. “One of the reasons is that they don’t have, throughout their lifetime, many experiences of speaking up because it’s much more encouraged in men than women.”

Second, women are treated worse than men. Do you remember this story about a man that signed his emails with his female coworker’s name for two weeks?

“A Pennsylvania man was shocked and disheartened when he got a taste of the sexism that women face in the workplace — simply by switching email signatures with a…