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12 Business Spotlight 3/2020 WORKING WORLD

“I think you have a lot of room to be more braggy. I expect you

are competing against men who have no problem doing so.” In

The Seattle Times, career coach Kathryn Crawford Saxer recounts

the advice she gave to a female client who was writing a job ap-

plication letter. Saxer was right: research suggests that men do

indeed promote themselves more, which, in turn, advances their

careers.

The British Medical Journal analysed the titles and abstracts of

scientific articles and found that male-led teams were 21 per

cent more likely than female-led teams to say their research

was good and important. The male-led teams used terms such

as “novel”, “excellent” and “promising” to describe their work.

The study also found that other researchers were more likely to

cite the abstracts that included such positive terms. In the world

of research, the people with the most citations are more likely to

get hired and promoted. And their projects tend to receive more

funding.

The question is whether the study’s findings have implica-

tions for other industries. Should women make a conscious

effort to use positive language to promote their work? Saxer

thinks so. She advised her client to replace words that “under-

mine her serious professionalism” such as “thrilled” and “eager”.

Her client chose to use “novel” instead.

GLOBAL

Male self-promotion?

What a novel idea

ADVANCED

abstract

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braggy

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citation

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and MEDIUM

Researchers have found that a $1 (€ 0.92) increase in mini-

mum wage would lead to a 3.4 per cent decrease in suicides

among US adults with a high school education or less. If

there had been such an increase in the 25 years covered by

the study, 27,550 suicides could have been avoided.

Source: “Effects of Increased Minimum Wages by Unemployment Rate on

Suicide in the USA” (https://jech.bmj.com/content/74/3/219)

UP

DOWN

Increase in job posts

in the past three years

offering “workplace

flexibility” as an

option for employees

to work when and

where they choose.

Source: LinkedIn’s “Global Talent Trends

2019” report (https://news.linkedin.com/

2019/January/linkedin-releases-2019-global-

talent-trends-report)

job post [(dZQb pEUst]

, Stellenausschreibung

(im Internet und auf sozialen

Medien)

78 %

Men on their

work: I’m the

king, baby!

UNITED STATES

A bit more

money: a ray of

hope for some