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Women's leadership shortage: the leaky tank.(IN HER OWN WORDS)
The main problem women administrators have is a built-in power deficit caused by chronic underrating. As Virginia Valian has explained in Why So Slow: The Advancement of Women, (MIT Press, 1999):
Men are consistently overrated, while women are underrated ... Like interest on capital, advantages accrue, and ... like interest on debt, disadvantages also accumulate. Very small differences in treatment can, if they pile up, result in large disparities in salary, promotion, and prestige ... The well-meaning advice often given to women--not to make a mountain out of a molehill--is mistaken. That advice fails to recognize that mountains are molehills, ...
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