Saturday, May 31, 2008

Latent Biases Against Women

Cathy Tinsley, a professor at Georgetown (woot!) and executive director of the GU Women's Leadership Initiative, wrote this editorial in the Washington Post featuring work that she has done which has shown gender bias in the corporate world. She specifically uses two examples from her research where women are judged more harshly than men when it comes to being assertive and taking time off for an emergency. Check it out.

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