I haven’t looked at Sharetrader for a few days so I was surprised to see 12 pages of new comments, many revealing an unconscious bias. The bias is that women are judged more harshly than men when they make a mistake in the business world. With women the mistake is often used as evidence that women are incompetent, whereas with men the same mistake is brushed off or ignored.
Double standards for men and women apply in the business world as well as for sexual behaviour. Unconscious bias is pervasive and often subtle. Rarely is it recognised as being sexist.
https://www.vox.com/science-and-heal...ender-wage-gap
“Women surgeons are punished more than men for the exact same mistakes, study finds
Sarsons got Medicare data on referrals by doctors to surgeons, and then looked at what happened to doctors’ referral rates after one of their patients died during a surgery. Would the doctor continue sending patients to that surgeon?
It turns out the surgeon’s gender — more than his or her performance — massively swayed that decision. The referring doctors judged female surgeons who had bad patient outcomes much more harshly than male surgeons, and that judgment determined whether they’d send their patients to the surgeon later.”