Women Who Go Both Ways Get More Promotions

Women who have stereotypically “masculine” traits like, oh, self-confidence, but know how to act feminine when needed, get more promotions than both men and other women, a new study reports.

The study followed 132 business school graduates when they first started b-school, then checked in on them again eight years later. Turns out that the “masculine” women who were good at “self-monitoring, or [the ability] to accurately assess social situations and project appropriate responses,” received 3 times as many promotions as women who were poor self-monitors, and assertive women who were good self-monitors received 1.5