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Impostor syndrome is a response to a world that doesn’t believe in women

New research shows the emotional exhaustion caused by it bleeds into our home life – but women are somehow expected to find a remedy within themselves
Women are not born feeling less-than ... they eventually internalise it. Photograph: fizkes/Getty/iStockphoto

Impostor syndrome ( as when “despite outstanding accomplishments, women [persist] in believing that they are really not bright and have fooled anyone who thinks otherwise”) . And while the discussion has been important, it has slowly reduced an all-too-real experience to a buzzword. As something that more often affects women –

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