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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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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