Gender Schemas and How They Affect Women's Leadership

In her Huffington Post article "Ginger Rogers, Competency, and Women," Birute Regine points out that women have to work twice as hard to get noticed as men, because of gender schemas. From her article: "So if you think you are being held to a higher standard, it's not your imagination. It's the Ginger Rogers syndrome: she has to do everything Fred does except backwards and in high heels." According to Regine, younger women do not always encounter this in their early careers but can expect to experience it as we climb the corporate ladder.