Sentence examples for assertive competitive from inspiring English sources
These television women, working in what has been a man's world, still face the old double standard, she said: they are expected to be assertive, competitive and emotionally distant (i.e., male), but they are also expected to be empathic, nurturing and emotionally expressive (i.e., female).
This shift towards androgyny also allows women to better cope with the challenge of the double bind paradox : the conflicting expectations that women leaders should simultaneously behave in a masculine manner (e.g., assertive, competitive) to fulfill the leader role and a feminine manner (e.g., compassionate, caring) to fulfill the female gender role.
On the other, she was assertive, even competitive with her husband.
The men in charge tend to be biased toward mentoring and promoting people like themselves, and biased against women who are assertive or competitive, necessary traits to reach the highest levels of business.
"Praising Cordelia" argues that both Buffy and Cordelia are representations of assertive and competitive young women, who "represent two kinds of aggressive adolescent girls".
Men tend to be more competitive, assertive, reckless and emotionally flat.
There are competitive, assertive women, just as there are collaborative, empathetic men.
Subjects with more trusting and cooperative personalities fared worse than competitive, assertive counterparts, but only when cooperative bargainers set low goals for themselves in advance.
There is the habitually frightening adjective war front, "an assertive Russia, a competitive China; a dangerous, unpredictable North Korea, a challenging Iran".
Beginning in utero, men are generally exposed to higher levels of testosterone, driving them to be more competitive, assertive, vengeful and daring.
