# Professor Susan Stehlik's undergraduate class experiment on gender and leadership is highlighted

1 Faculty News July 5, 2016 ![Guardian logo ](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030939.jpg?itok=g7FgVwid)>

Excerpt from [The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/05/fbi-hillary-clinton-political-setback-email) -- "A study out of the NYU Stern School of Business found women in positions of power are consistently considered to be less trustworthy than men holding the same positions; the study was recently replicated and reconfirmed by Anderson Cooper. And research from the Barbara Lee Foundation pinpoints a pedestal effect, where when a woman running for office fails to meet a high bar set for her she is disproportionately dinged by the public, more than her male counterparts."

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