HealthDay (11/3) reports research indicates that “women are more reluctant to ask for deadline extensions at work than their male colleagues are, in part because they worry about being seen as incompetent.” The findings of the nine-study, 5,700-person research article were published online Nov. 1 in PNAS. Commenting on the findings, Ludmila De Faria, MD, chair, Committee on Women’s Mental Health, American Psychiatric Association, “said that working women often feel pressure to prove they are highly competent while also being seen as ‘nice.’” For that reason, “their anxieties around deadline extensions makes sense, said” Dr. De Faria, who had no involvement in the study.
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— “Women Less Likely to Ask for More Time When Deadlines Loom “Amy Norton, HealthDay, November 3, 2021