Women bump up against their own glass ceiling

Almost inevitably during our Women leadership workshops, the question of gender perception comes up and many illustrations are shared.
A new study just came out that gives another perspective on the gender leadership issues. Scott Taylor, assistant professor at the University of New Mexico, School of Management, asked 251 male and female managers from different industries nationwide to rate themselves and requested ratings from supervisors, peers and subordinates. Each subject also was asked to predict the ratings made by others.
The men slightly overestimated the ratings by their boss, and women underestimated the ratings by almost 11 %. Taylor suggested that male managers may need to learn other ways of communicating to women employees how valued they are. The learning for the women themselves is, to be more focused on all their good characteristics and less focused on shortcomings.
Let us at least not underestimate ourselves!!
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/aug/11/sp-gender-gap/news-money/