Authenticity Doesn’t Prevent Communication-Based Biases
In her book Feminist Fight Club, recently excerpted on Fast Company, author Jessica Bennett writes about the “persistent double standard” that “women face in the office every time we open our mouths. Use too many stereotypically ‘feminine’ speech patterns, and you risk falling victim to gender bias and undercutting your authority. But carefully prune those habits from the way you talk, and you not only sacrifice your own authenticity but risk being penalized by those same sexist biases as too...
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