Sexism

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🗓️ 15 October 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Are you experiencing gender bias at work? Dan and Alison answer your questions with the help of Katie Coffman, a professor at Harvard Business School. They talk through what to do when you are held to a higher standard as a female manager, you’ve been promoted but a male deputy has been chosen for you, or you join a company that is living in the past.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dear HBR from Harvard Business Review.
0:03.9	I'm Dan McGinn.
0:04.9	And I'm Alison Beard.
0:12.3	Work can be frustrating, but it doesn't have to be.
0:15.3	We don't need to let the conflicts get us down.
0:17.8	That's where Dear HBR comes in.
0:19.9	We take your questions, look at the research,
0:22.5	talk to the experts, and help you move forward. Today, we're answering questions about sexism
0:34.7	in the workplace with Katie Kaufman. She's a professor at Harvard
0:37.9	Business School. Katie, thanks for joining us. So great to be here with you both. Katie, what's the
0:43.3	biggest misunderstanding out there about gender equality at work? Oh, that's a big one. I think more
0:48.9	and more there's a shared understanding of what's going on, so I do think it's getting better over
0:53.5	time. But I think a woman may
0:55.9	experience something in the workplace, and it might be immediately clear to them, and maybe some of
1:01.3	their female friends they talked to, that sexism played a role. And when telling that same story
1:06.7	to maybe a male colleague, a male friend, they wouldn't have that same reaction.
1:11.7	What are the good organizations doing right?
1:15.3	A real commitment, even among top leadership to make change on this issue, setting the tone
1:21.3	throughout the organization that this is going to be a place that takes these problems
1:25.7	seriously.
1:26.7	Katie, even at companies where you have a
1:28.5	female CEO or lots of female executives, are the day-to-day interactions between men and women
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