Females in leadership roles experience many challenges and often enough find it difficult to navigate office politics and work with the unconscious bias. Let’s identify a few barriers to career progression and how female employees can move passed them.

Nearly a century ago, Edward Thorndike (1917) published his findings of a connection between work and satisfaction in the Journal of Applied Psychology. The precursor to Thorndike’s research on job satisfaction was his studies of animal behavior, which led to the formulation of his Law of Effect (1911). The Law of Effect states: 1) responses that are followed by satisfaction …