The net and the ladder. The gender dynamics of failure and opportunity.
They say what goes up must come down. But in business, I couldn’t help but wonder… when men fall, why is there always a net?
“They said to me, ‘You’re not quite ready yet. Come back when you have more in your portfolio,’” a friend told me over drinks. She was working on several brilliant projects and having meetings with various funders who were all suspicious of her ambition. She continued, “And yet, when XXX (name redacted—but imagine a young, male creative) had only made one thing,
