What Happens When We Give Everything a Gender
Is your wineglass feminine or masculine? That question sparked research on whether we stereotype or not.
Is your wineglass feminine or masculine? That question sparked research on whether we stereotype or not.
Performance evaluations are designed to be meritocratic. Unfortunately, they can exacerbate the very gender inequities they are striving to reduce.
Trainings to remove bias are mostly ineffective, and can even backfire. What, then, is the way forward?
Men are more effective at combating sexism, and they and incur fewer costs for it than women. Why don’t they speak up?
A viral letter by former Google employee James Damore renewed the conversation about diversity in Silicon Valley.
Today, women comprise only 25 percent of the STEM workforce, 4 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs, and earn 79 cents for every dollar paid to men, amounting to an average income difference of $10,762 per year. The numbers tell the story—gender inequality is still a pervasive problem in the U.S.