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From: CNN

When a woman should act like a man

CNN:

Tilia Wong worked in construction management before going to business school and got used to thinking of herself as a businesswoman who knew how to keep assertive behavior under wraps.

“I’m a 24-year-old Asian girl telling a 55-year-old white guy what to do. I had to tone it down,” she said of her workplace experience.

Fast forward to this year, when Wong began an MBA at Stanford University and had to reassess herself because classmates told her she was actually on the aggressive end of the spectrum.

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