(Ty Wright/Getty Images)Twice this week, President Barack Obama has spotlighted a double standard that complicates life for professional women. “When men are ambitious, it's just taken for granted — well, of course they should be ambitious,” he told comedian Samantha Bee in a Monday interview. “When women are ambitious — Why?”Obama doubled down on this theme Tuesday at an Ohio rally: “When a guy is ambitious and out in the public arena and working hard, well, that’s okay. “Ambitious” tends to be a compliment for men and a critique of women. People tend to expect them to reach higher — and assume, perhaps subconsciously, that women are better equipped for the domestic sphere.

Source: Washington Post November 03, 2016 11:14 UTC