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Why women fail to win big business contracts

Women fail to clinch contracts because 'they don't know people'. [iStockphoto]

Doesn't it always feel good when you approach someone to help you out on something and they trivialise your issue saying: "This is a small problem?"

And before you pour out more of your heart, they pick up their phone, dial some number, and you hear the person on the other end muttering several "yeses" and "no problems" -whether willingly or begrudgingly - before they disconnect the call and turn to you and ask: "Is that all?"

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