When a professional endeavor goes wrong, women are more likely to blame themselves. What it’s like looks something like this. “If they are feeling all that,” the authors write, “imagine what it is like for the rest of us.” Time and again, they saw the same self-doubt: bright women with ideas afraid to raise their hands, speak up, ask for a raise or a promotion that inexplicable feeling that they don’t own the right to rule at the top. In two decades covering American politics, the two journalists had interviewed some of the most powerful women in the nation - lawmakers and CEOs, professional athletes, leaders of social movements. She began her career as a foreign correspondent at CNN, reporting from Moscow.īut the confidence problem wasn’t just limited to them. Shipman, a contributor to ABC and Good Morning America, had a habit of telling people she’d gotten “lucky” when she asked how she got into journalism. And yet she spent her career convinced she wasn’t smart enough to compete for the top jobs. Kay, a news anchor for the BBC, has covered three presidential elections, the wars in Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq, and speaks several languages. Longtime friends Kay and Shipman realized over dinner one night that each struggled with the same problem of self-doubt.
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