Fail Bright Women

Those who had a higher fear of success performed better working alone than they did working under pressure in competition with another. Many times these women feel a void in them and feel they must achieve more than this one success over men. The group that was most frequent from the females was the one where they fear social rejection as the result of success. So they may change ideas and go to another and seek out success in another view. The girls feared success because of social acceptance. The third was oblivious to either of the previous aspects and instead are in a state of denial. Those who do not are the women that persevere and seek out more than little success.

Last Horner did a test in which they used actual situations for testing. Those females who are succeeding against males and are not concerned with social aspect are those who want more than just that little success. Those that did simply denied the existence or denied the success. The second group would be girls not so much concerned with social acceptance, but with becoming more in touch with their “femininity or normality” (Horner 400). Nobody wants to be the outsider, but nobody wants to intentionally fail so they won’t become the outsider.

Through Horner’s tests, she develops three main categories in which women fall into under certain situations, which include competition for success against a male partner. heir pride, which is worth more to them than most other fixations in life. On the other hand those who had a fear of success did better under pressure in the competition situations and did not do well working alone.