Why do women not believe in themselves?

Audio 48:30

When women doubt themselves © iStock / fizkes

By: Emmanuelle Bastide

50 min

Lack of self-confidence, feeling of being illegitimate, fear of failure… Why are women more caught up in what two American psychologists have called: imposture syndrome?

Far from being limited to professional life, this phenomenon penetrates into the private, family, friendly or romantic sphere.

How to break this glass ceiling which prevents them from flourishing and asserting their ambitions?

Publicity

With:

Elisabeth Cadoche

, journalist, co-author

The imposture syndrome - Why do women lack self-confidence?

(The arenas)

Anne Montarlot

, psychotherapist in London, England, co-author

The sham syndrome - Why do women lack self-confidence?

(The arenas)

Odome Angone

, teacher-researcher at the

Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar in Senegal

, author of

Francophone Black Women - A reflection on patriarchy and racism in the XX-XXIst centuries (Kala / Hermann Editions)

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