Employers must fix their bias on the job potential of women
1 year, 2 months ago

Employers must fix their bias on the job potential of women

Live Mint  

According to a report by McKinsey and LeanIn.org, young women are just as ambitious and qualified as young men, but they are not getting promoted to managerial roles at the same rate. The report underlines that the typical excuses given for a gender imbalance—that women have lower aspirations or less confidence, or take time off for kids—aren’t the biggest hurdle women face. A recent paper by researchers at University of Minnesota, Yale and MIT found that managers in a large retail chain saw women as having less leadership potential even though their performance reviews were better, on average, than those of their male peers. With data on 30,000 employees, researchers found that over-performance did not improve women’s scores on leadership potential. That’s eerily similar to McKinsey and LeanIn’s latest findings on the workforce overall, and from a similar cause: Managers consistently over-emphasize potential and are quicker to identify men as having it.

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