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Susanne Ballauff doesn't like clichés. Still, she can't get past it. "I started at a German bank," she says, "and at the time my bosses boasted about which women got them into the cross-mentoring program or the high-potential-shoot-me-dead program. But who ended up getting the jobs? It was the male buddies."

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