What happens when women don't downplay their success?

Strength and belief in numbers

Last year when South Africa celebrated Women's Month, in memory of women who stood up and marched against an oppressive system on 9 August 1956, financial services company Momentum started a conversation with women about boldly owning their achievements.

We launched the #NoApologyForMySuccess campaign - a movement that aims to inspire women to talk confidently about their achievements. Women across the world are reaching incredible milestones and achieving well beyond what we were taught was possible; and still so many of us do not confidently embrace our success - instead, research shows that we tend to apologise for it. Rising Stars of 2020: Driving industry change The opposite is needed. We need women to talk about their success without feeling like they are being arrogant or overconfident when they do so. Following Internati...