As more employers use "employee trust" to assess leadership performance, research finds that gender bias impacts trust measures in ways that disadvantage women managers.
"Benevolent sexism,” disguised as warmth bias, limits career advancement for Asian women with accents in Canadian workplaces, a new study reveals. Understanding the accent bias: A recent study led by Ivona Hideg, Samantha Hancock and Winny Shen from York University and Western University in Canada sheds light on the often-overlooked phenomenon of accent bias against women in the workplace. Benevolent sexism unmasked: The study found that Asian women with a Mandarin accent were often perceived as more friendly, trustworthy and sincere than their counterparts without accents.