Resources
Take the Gender Bias Test and Training
The Center for WorkLife Law has developed an online gender bias training that teaches you to identify four basic patterns of gender bias.
Project Implicit and Harvard University developed a series of Implicit Association Tests (IAT) that measure of the strength of your associations regarding women and careers, women and leadership, and women and science.
The Center for WorkLife Law has developed an online gender bias training that teaches you to identify four basic patterns of gender bias.
Project Implicit and Harvard University developed a series of Implicit Association Tests (IAT) that measure of the strength of your associations regarding women and careers, women and leadership, and women and science.
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The Atlantic:
6-Year-Old Girls Already Have Gendered Beliefs About Intelligence The stereotype that brilliance and genius are male traits is common among adults. But new research shows that girls begin to doubt their own intelligence at young as 6. Entrepreneur: Single Ladies Are More Likely to Downplay Career Goals, Study Finds Among single females, 64 percent of first-year MBA candidates said they had avoided requesting a raise or promotion out of worry that they would appear too ambitious, assertive or pushy, compared to 27 percent of men. The Guardian: The pocket money gap – and 10 other ways girls are taught they’re worth less From disparate allowances to toys, clothes and books that focus on their appearance, girls feel the impacts of gender bias almost as soon as they are born. |
PrTini:
Confronting Gender Bias at Work This toolkit is chalk full of incredible information and resources to help spark conversations about societal gender norms and how they impact our lives, communities, and workplaces. New York Times: A Toxic Work World Workplace policies that devalue caregiving and hinder work-life balance are pushing women out of the workforce, regardless of ambition, confidence or talent. FiveThirtyEight: How Unconscious Sexism Could Help Explain Trump’s Win Implicit gender bias against ambitious and career-driven women may help explain why some voters rejected Hillary Clinton. |
McKinsey & Company:
How Advancing Women's Equality can Add $12 trillion to Global Growth The world, including the private sector, would benefit by focusing on the large economic opportunity of improving parity between men and women. Harvard Business Review: Women Rising: The Unseen Barriers Companies looking to increase the number of women leaders must address gender bias to increase the likelihood that others will recognize and encourage her efforts—even when she doesn’t look or behave like the current generation of senior executives. McKinsey & Company: Addressing unconscious bias Geena Davis explains how media reflects gender bias, and how the lack of representation of women in media perpetuates gender bias. |
REPORTS
World Economic Forum: The Global Gender Gap Report (2016)
Economic Policy Institute: Women's Work and the Gender Pay Gap McKinsey & Company: Gender equality: Taking stock of where we are Women's Media Center: The Media Gender Gap Elephant in the Valley A survey of 200+ women about their experiences with gender bias in Silicon Valley and the tech sector. |
WATCH
The Women's Fund of Central Ohio: Gender By Us
He For She: How Does Gender Affect the Workplace?
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