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Second Generation Bias: A Subtle but Powerful Presence

Published: 6 February 2015

Deeply embedded and frequently unconscious cultural and organizational biases can be challenged both through small "wins" and by establishing policies that take a whole-organization rather than a women-only approach. Second-generation gender bias is making its way into the lexicon of women's workplace issues as a subtle, covert, and at times unintentional, phenomenon that thwarts women's power and potential. ... Brian Rubineau, Ph.D., assistant professor of organizational behavior at McGill University's Desautels Faculty of Management in Montreal, says changing the internal workings of an organization is extremely difficult because solutions must be multilayered. "Trying to focus on one (issue) at a time results in very little progress," says Dr. Rubineau, who had studied workplace inequality for 13 years. "Many mechanisms combine to create inequality in the workplace."

Read full article here: Society of Women Engineers, Spring 2014

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