Some Women Work Too Hard to Be Promoted

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Maybe it's not that women are working too hard. It's that we're working at the wrong things.
If we spend all our time and energy "just" doing the job, and not enough time and energy on managing our image then, yes, we will be branded as workerbees and not potential leaders.
A lot of us were raised to believe that if we kept our noses to the grindstone, good things were bound to come our way. Unfortunately, this isn't true. Good things can't come your way if people don't know you exist, or if they don't know you're interested in moving beyond the hard-worker role.

Working Girl of WA 12:17PM August 19, 2008

That is so true! And not only that, often, because its so much work that they're given them, then they feel the need to create a position above them and hire -usually a man- to help them with their newer, bigger, heavier, extra-time-consuming load.

Zoe of NY 4:06PM August 18, 2008

Yeap! Agree 100% with you on that one. No argue since the situation out there is actually like a 'Murphy Law' scenarios. No matter how hard you work it out is a 'No Win Situation' for no one which try with such approach it really going no where down the road,believe you me! And for the mens forget it is even harder to get that little promotion up hill. Very dissapointed pictures. Let's keep on praying!

Mike Dud of CT 1:15PM August 18, 2008