From the course: Fighting Gender Bias in the Workplace
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Is this course only for men?
From the course: Fighting Gender Bias in the Workplace
Is this course only for men?
- Hopefully we all care about improving our work environments for everyone. But you may be asking, who is this course for? Is it for men to learn how to stop being biased against women? Is it for women to learn how they might be biased against? The answer is more nuanced. Gender bias at work is complex and contextual. It's complex because there are many ways in which gender identity and gender expression affect our assessments at work. And it's contextual because the same standard that gives a person an advantage in one situation may give them a disadvantage in another. In general, I will focus on biases that disadvantage women at work. However, in other instances, biases also affect men. When my colleagues at the Stanford VMware Women's Leadership Lab analyzed performance reviews, they discovered that men tended to get criticized for not speaking up. From the lens of gender default, you can see that the expectation…
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