His colleagues have also been pictured doing this stance, which is known in lifestyle and management coaching circles as the “power pose”. She is talking about body language: those silent signals we send accidentally, and which others claim to be able to read whether we want them to or not. But rather than challenge the gender biases and stereotypes that result in men seeing women’s body language as powerless, she chose to suggest we change our body language to mimic those with actual power (who of course are mostly men). In 2017, 11 new studies on power posing failed to replicate the original findings that formed the basis of Cuddy’s TED talk. And yet the myth of power poses remains, as we saw this week from Sajid Javid.

Source: The Guardian May 01, 2018 15:11 UTC