Kathleen Hall Jamieson - Beyond the Double Bind (1995)

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Stories told around the water-cooler as well as statistics confirm that a man's competence is more likely to be presupposed, a woman's questioned.

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Sisterhood is a powerful metaphor; it ought not become a synonym for groupthink.

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Women are penalized both for deviating from the masculine norm and for appearing to be masculine. When women try to establish their competence, they are scrutinized for evidence that they lack masculine (instrumental) characteristics as well as for signs that they no longer possess female (expressive) ones. They are taken to fail, in other words, both as a male and as a female.

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Women are quoted as sources and appear on interview shows much less frequently than men.... But the by-product of such anonymity may be immortality, for women are also less likely to find themselves written up on the obituary page.

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