gender

Study: Highly intelligent women are perceived by colleagues as more hostile and receive less help

A study by Nitya Chawla (UCL School of Management) with 826 participants in the US and China showed that women with high scores on cognitive ability tests received less help and more often faced undermining, whereas men with high scores did not — and in one group they were even supported more. The authors link this to gender expectations but stress that the effects are small and that this is a correlation, not proven causation.