DifferenceWORKS Made a Difference!
I smiled big when I learned that a workshop I gave over a decade ago made a difference!
It Was Just a Matter of Time (We Thought)
Having women join men in the upper ranks of business was not, as hoped, just a “matter of time.” But it sure is time – to solve this.
A Push to Get Women on Boards
The bronze statue of a young girl facing the Wall Street Bull will continue to provoke big firms to include more women on boards. It isn’t just the right thing to do; it’s the smart thing to do.
Gender Bias: More Evidence It Is Real
I am adding to my pile of studies showing that gender bias is real. This one shows that male biology students over-rated their male colleagues and under-estimated better performing women. This goes in the stack with Heidi vs Howard and Kristen Schilt’s work with 54 transgendered men. Do you know people who still question the existence of gender bias? Share these studies with them. Awareness of our biases is the first step in changing them.
Suggestion: Stop Trying to Achieve Gender Diversity by “Fixing” Women
A recent conversation brought to mind how people are missing the mark in trying to achieve gender diversity in leadership. I heard more about (a) how people understand the business value of gender diversity, (b) they don’t know how to get it, and (c) they are still trying to “fix” women instead of eliminating the barriers to gender diversity. How can we shift the focus from “fixing women” to bringing awareness to unconscious gender biases?
Even His Daughter Didn’t “Fit the Picture”
Unconscious gender bias doesn’t’ appear exclusively in the corporate world. As illustrated by a true story a friend recently told me, it resides in small business, too. Our unconscious (and gendered) images of leadership are everywhere. In a family business, a woman who had worked for years was passed over when the founder retired — by a much less experienced, but male, relative. How can we broaden our “pictures” of leadership?
Caroline on The Huffington Post
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