"One aspect of pragmatic bias that is especially pernicious is that people who themselves do not hold gender biases.might still act against women because of what they see around them."
Senior Associate Dean
I’ve been focusing on and talking about these issues of social change for a very, very long time.
When Sarah Soule arrived at Stanford Graduate School of Business as a professor of organizational behavior in 2008, one of the first courses she taught was an elective called
Women in Management. This title was inherited from a colleague, she recalls, and didn’t do justice to the material, because the course actually explored broader issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion. But perhaps because of the name, only a handful of students enrolled.
“The class was competing with other classes on topics that students perceived to be more important to their careers,” Soule says.
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