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> less likely to be pre-judged I wonder how much that has to do with the hiring managers also being women. (For the places where that’s the case.)
by biztos 4y ago
> less likely to be pre-judged
I wonder how much that has to do with the hiring managers also being women. (For the places where that’s the case.)
- roguecoder 4y agoIt is likely to have more to do with gender stereotyping, and attitudes towards the work itself. Women and men alike perpetuate gender discrimination: https://escholarship.org/content/qt8s94154n/qt8s94154n.pdf https://escholarship.org/content/qt8s94154n/qt8s94154n.pdf Fields that hold fixed-mindset beliefs, where success in the field is attributed to innate talent, "being smart" or other unchanging characteristics, have significantly more discrimination against women and traditionally-marginalized racial groups than do fields that believe success relies on hard work and practice: https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.1261375 https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.1261375