Executive Summary
To get ahead in the workplace, you have to be seen. But for women, the importance of visibility creates a conundrum. On the one hand, women’s contributions are systematically overlooked at work. This limits their professional advancement and helps to explain why the senior levels of organizations today remain overwhelmingly male. Yet, when women try to make themselves more visible in the office, they can face backlash for violating expectations about how women should behave and risk losing the hard-won career gains they have already made.
How do women…
