Season 2, Ep 3: How to Spot and Snuff Out Gender Bias
In this episode, we discuss how to gender sleuth so you can detect when people are responding to the often hidden pressure of gender stereotypes. When we unwittingly conform to gender stereotypes, women face increased gender bias, particularly in male-dominated workplaces and as they move up the career ladder. We offer solutions with 4 action steps so women and male allies can snuff out gender bias.
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If you would like to learn more about today’s topic:
Delusions of Gender by Cornelia Fine
International Women’s Day resources
20 Books to Help Break the Bias for a More Gender Equal World
7:48 Episode overview
-The pervasiveness of gender bias against women
-How to sleuth for bias
-4 actions steps we can all take to combat bias
8:50 Highest paid jobs and preference for male candidates
9:00 Motherhood penalty
9:33 Women and leadership roles
10:02 Double bind
10:30 Women and STEM roles
10:43 Cultural assumptions about gender impacts competency
13:35 Women at tops of organizations face additional biases
15:35 Views and skills are malleable
16:41 Male brain and female brain
18:06 Fallacy of Women are from Mars and Men are from Venus
25:39 Switch it up game to detect gender bias
30:50 Gender bias and intersectional identities
31:37 Ways to break the bias:
-31:58 self-correction
-32:28 examine your organization’s culture
-34:34 speak up when you see bias
-36:01 ask questions in lieu of confrontation
37:50 Parity in Play
Headline: Why Are So Few Women Mass Murders?
Men are the norm
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