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In 2005 when Harvard University's then-president Larry Summers suggested that women had less intrinsic aptitude in science, he set off a firestorm that contributed to his departure. But instead of leading women to doubt their abilities, his comments had the unintended effect of motivating women to react against them.
That fits with research done by Dr. Laura Kray, associate professor of business administration at the school of business at the University of California at Berkeley, whose doctorate in social psychology provides a lens for her work on gender and negotiations.
Her studies have found that when women are blatantly told that they are at a ...