1. Sharon Mavin, “Queen Bees, Wannabees and Afraid to Bees: No More Best Enemies for Women in Management?”
2. Gallup, “Americans Still Prefer a Male Boss to a Female Boss,” October 2014, http://www.gallup.com/poll/178484/americans-prefer-male-boss-female-boss.aspx.
3. Marianne Cooper, “For Women Leaders, Likability and Success Hardly Go Hand-in-Hand,”
4. Madeline E. Heilman et al., “Penalties for Success: Reactions to Women Who Succeed at Male Gender-Typed Tasks,”
5. Interview with author, 2010.
6. Amy Cuddy, “Just Because I’m Nice, Don’t Assume I’m Dumb,”
7. Paula Szuchman, “Are Recommendation Letters Biased Against Women?”
8. Ibid.
9. Lynn Peril, Swimming in the Steno Pool: A Retro Guide to Making It in the Office (New York: W.W. Norton, 2011), 203.
10. The Center for Legislative Archives online, http://congressarchives.tumblr.com/post/37712637089/on-december-11–1917-alice-wadsworth-president.
11. Stephanie A. Shields, “Passionate Men, Emotional Women: Psychology Constructs Gender Difference in the Late 19th Century,”
12. Veronica Rocha and Lee Romney, “Black Women Kicked off Napa Wine Train to Sue for Discrimination,”
13. Alessandra Stanley, “Wrought in Rhimes’s Image,”
14. Huda Hassan, “The Angry Black Woman Must Die,” BuzzFeed, July 31, 2015.
15. Roxanne A. Donovan, “Tough or Tender: (Dis)Similarities in White College Students’ Perceptions of Black and White Women,”
16. LeanIn.Org and McKinsey & Co.,
17. Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan, “Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination.” The National Bureau of Economic Research, 2003, http://www.nber.org /papers/w9873.
18. Jay Newton-Small, Broad Influence: How Women Are Changing the Way America Works (New York: TIME, 2015).
19. Rosabeth Moss Kanter, “Some Effects of Proportions on Group Life: Skewed Sex Ratios and Responses to Token Women,”
20. Kimberly E. O’Brien et al., “A Meta-Analytic Investigation of Gender Differences in Mentoring,”
21. Leah D. Sheppard and Karl Aquino, “Much Ado About Nothing? Observers’ Problematization of Women’s Same-Sex Conflict at Work,”
22. Madeline E. Heilman, “Description and Prescription: How Gender Stereotypes Prevent Women’s Ascent up the Organizational Ladder,”