Posts Tagged ‘unconscious gender bias’
5 Actions Leaders Can Take to Overcome Unconscious Gender Bias at Work
Men and women are having vastly different experiences at work. Full stop. Yet, many men question whether men and women do in fact face different experiences at work. If you don’t believe gender bias exists in the workplace, do this one test for a week: Listen and observe. In most meetings, women’s voices and ideas…
Read MoreThe Meritocracy Myth. The Unwritten Rules of Promotions and the Workplace.
Men, Women and the Meritocracy Myth. During a keynote event at a conference, I referenced research from The Sponsor Effect, which recommends that women change their viewpoint on meritocracies. The research concludes that men and women think differently about who gets promotions. When you ask women, 77 percent say they believe promotions are driven by a…
Read MoreWhy Your Unconscious Bias Training Isn’t Working
Why Unconscious Gender Bias Training is Essential Will your company be the next Google or Uber? What are you doing to drive real change and an understanding of diversity and inclusion deep into middle management and throughout your organization? It is truly a tale of two strategies, the companies that are doing it well and the companies that are…
Read MoreWhat Can Your Company Learn from the Google Diversity Debacle
Why your diversity and unconscious bias training is failing. Google made headlines over the weekend when a 10-page manifesto released by a white male engineer about his beliefs on meritocracy and the shortcomings of Google’s diversity and unconscious bias training efforts went viral. His essay suggests that the company encourage ideological rather than gender diversity and argues that…
Read MoreFemale Advisors More Likely to Be Punished For Misconduct
Evidently, there’s less of a ‘second chance’ for female advisors fired for misconduct – even though male advisors usually get one, a new study claims. If the National Bureau of Economic Research has its facts straight on investment industry bias against female financial advisors, Wall Street has a lot of explaining to do. A study…
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