Tekla Francis Yes! I’ve done a little research on the situation you describe in which women are:

A. depicted in a negative light for acting the same way men do. Example, a Cornell study finds that men are viewed as decisive where women are described as bossy for displaying the exact same behaviors.

B. receiving less opportunity from employers and venture capitalists due to their gender. As Dana Kanze examines in her TED Talk, women are asked: “prevention focused questions” such as: How do you plan to retain your current customers? And men are asked “promotion-focused questions” such as: How many new customers do you plan to attain this year?

Females are not even afforded the opportunity to answer the questions that may bring employers/ investors to see them as capable and confident- it is no wonder women get paid less than men and are labeled negatively in comparison. The language we use and the stereotypes we normalize need to change.