According to a new research on how leaders are chosen in a group, men overstate their own ability which in turn leads to their selection as group leaders while women underplay their success.
Researchers led by the Northwestern University found that women's tendency to downplay their successes could be holding them back at work, BusinessNewsDaily reported.
The study divided MBA students into groups and examined how leaders were chosen from those groups.
The leaders were to be chosen based on experience from a prior experiment.
"Barring any explicit discrimination against women