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How a Tiny Bit of Gender Bias Adds Up to Hurt Women’s Careers

How a Tiny Bit of Gender Bias Adds Up to Hurt Women’s Careers

A striking simulation of promotions in a model organisation, aptly called NormCorp. You can see how even small biases against women compound over time, leading to ever fewer women in the upper ranks of the organisation. What’s more, those women who still make it to the top usually take a lot longer to get there.


From Weekly Filet #367, in October 2021.

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