I am constantly waiting to be tapped on the shoulder at work and asked “Um, what are you doing here?” I’ve always felt that way when it came to work-related stuff because as much as women are denied things in the workplace (you know, like equal pay), I’m slightly more anxious about being given a “break” because I’m a woman. I’ve spent the first few weeks at new jobs wondering if I truly deserve the position or if I’m helping the company fill some sort of diversity quota.
Seventeen women share their experiences with Impostor Syndrome, or “a nuisance that befalls many high-achieving women, wherein they chalk up their success to:
“…luck, to being in the right place at the right time, to factors other than ability. […] They live in fear that eventually some significant person will discover that they are, indeed, intellectual impostors.””
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