Our Inner Bias/Inner Critic can be our own worst enemy. Our inner bias can show up as:
What to do:
Calm you inner bias:
Women are in a “no win” situation and walk a tightrope of meeting societal demands for women to demonstrate female characteristics of compassion, warmth, communication and collaboration vs leadership characteristics (dominated by male characteristics) of forceful, assertive, dominant and competitive.
Did you know? When women display male characteristics, they are seen as competent but not liked. When they display female characteristics they are viewed as less competent. Women leaders are seen as competent or likeable but rarely both. I saw this play out in my own career and it is incredibly frustrating.
And when you add women of different race, ethnic, sexual and gender identities to the tightrope of gender bias it gets even more complicated navigating the ladder to success.
A few ways bias shows up:
How else have you seen bias show up?
I am presenting the topic of Bias and Intersectionality this week. It is to a group of women new in their careers. Bias is a well-used word but what does it really mean?
Fact: The world does not view women and men the same.
Gender bias is: When people show favoritism toward one gender over another.
Women vs Men:
What examples have you seen where bias comes into play?
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