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Subtle Stressors That Hold Us Back
A conversation with Teresa Cardador
It can be difficult when you work in a field or workplace where men significantly outnumber women. Gender bias can run rampant. You can feel like an outsider on your team. You may feel like you have no control over your career path or growth. It takes resilience just to survive, let alone thrive.
Teresa Cardador, a professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has documented the stress female engineers commonly feel from working with mostly men, as well as how they cope. In this conversation, Amy Bernstein, Amy Gallo, and Nicole Torres, cohosts of HBR’s Women at Work podcast, talk to Teresa about the subtle stressors facing women in male-dominated workplaces ...