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Negative Bias: When You’re Judged Just for Being a Woman at Work
We use stereotypes to simplify our thinking. Stereotypes allow us to ascribe characteristics to people based on one of their other characteristics. Thus we think we know what people are like — strong/weak, friend/foe, skilled/not skilled, and competent/incompetent — because of their sex, race, age, education, wealth, job, accent, dress, domestic situation, and so on. By classifying people in this way, we know the “sorts” of people with which we are dealing and how we should relate to them. That...
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