For women, being creative at work comes with a hidden cost

In 2007, two psychologists, Madeline Heilman and Tyler Okimoto, published what would become one of the most influential papers on gender bias in the workplace. Across three experiments, they found that women who succeeded in stereotypically masculine roles were judged differently from equally successful men. Their competence wasn’t questioned; their likability was. Participants were more likely to describe the women as abrasive, hostile, and less desirable as bosses simply because they had…