Women
fromPsychology Today
1 day agoHow Tall Poppy Syndrome Can Hold Back Your Career
Tall poppy syndrome punishes and isolates high-achieving individuals—particularly women—undermining mental health, engagement, and career advancement.
Social Security is designed so that married people have a big advantage that never-married people do not have: They can collect benefits based on their own earnings or up to half of the earnings of their spouse, whichever is higher. Never-married people do not have an alternative source of benefits that may be greater than their own. A little more than half of married women today collect their spouse's benefits because those benefits are greater than their own, Carr and her colleagues report.