MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Breaking the Cycle of Bias That Works Against Women Leaders
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- Burak Oc, Ekaterina Netchaeva, Maryam Kouchaki
- MIT Sloan Management Review
- 2021
It turns out that gender bias in hiring and advancement is more pervasive than we thought.
While progress has certainly been made toward workplace gender parity — some companies, for example, are writing more gender-balanced performance reviews — the reality is that women are still underrepresented in private-sector leadership positions. There are likely multiple drivers of this. Outright discrimination — denying women jobs on the basis of their gender rather than their skill sets — is certainly one. But another, harder-to-detect factor can contribute to the leadership gap: the tendency of some organizational decision makers to subtly dissuade women from pursuing leadership roles.
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Breaking the Cycle of Bias That Works Against Women Leaders