Why do women not believe in themselves?
Audio 48:30
When women doubt themselves.
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By: Emmanuelle Bastide
50 mins
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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