Jezebel

How women in 1936 combatted the terminal affliction of shyness

Welcome back to Throwback Thursday, in which we bask in the ridiculous beliefs and advice of cultural stalwarts past. Today, we’re looking at 1936’s The Modern Woman: Beauty, Physical, Culture, ...
Harvard Business Review

Women at Work: Too Shy to Be a Leader

A conversation with psychologist Alice Boyes and the hosts of Women at Work about shyness and leadership. Women at Work is a podcast from Harvard Business Review that looks at the struggles and ...
Newsweek

Viral Video Claims ‘Being Shy’ Is Actually Something Else – Is It True?

Is being shy a trauma response? One woman thinks that it certainly could be, and has attributed her own past "shyness" to being a mislabeled response to trauma. The woman took to TikTok on March 16 to ...
MM&M

Almost half of women say media, advertising shy away from women’s health issues: Study

There are still significant gaps and gender bias in healthcare marketing, according to the Health on Her Own Terms study released Thursday. WPP and SeeHer released research that found almost half of ...