The Paula Principle: why women lose out at work - and what needs to be done about it

An expert on innovation and work argues that the skills of many highly capable women are not being recognized, and that this harms businesses and individuals alike.

Whereas The Peter Principle, a four-million-copy bestseller from the 1960s, argued that most (male) workers will inevitably be promoted to one level beyond their competence, Schuller shows how women today face the opposite scenario: their skills are going to waste as they work below their competence levels.

Schuller blends inter...