Helping Companies Retain and Advance Women
David Nicklaus in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch explains a recent study:
“The researchers tried an experiment. They presented some business students with articles that described entrepreneurs in typical fashion, and others with articles that were gender-neutral. The women who read the gender-neutral version expressed much more interest in becoming entrepreneurs themselves.”
Read the full article to learn how our language affects young girls relevant to starting their own businesses…
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Here’s an excerpt from an interesting article from today’s Menphis Commercial Appeal:
Our minds are wired to perceive differences, make assumptions and put people who don’t look like us into easily stereotyped categories. And only now are researchers beginning to dig into how we might rewrite the software and perceptions of our unconscious selves and begin to alter the innately racist and sexist wiring of our minds
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I just read a fascinating essay on gender and racial equality. it explains the author’s interesting, and for the most part, objective views on the causes of disparity and tools for change. Whether I agree or not is not the point but I love reading it. And, for the record, I absolutely agree with most of it!
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