The Authority Gap: Why women are still taken less seriously than men, and what we can do about it

When we imagine a leader, we imagine a man. This is an unconscious bias that results from living in a world that continuously tells us - in overt and more subtle ways - that men are more authoritative (powerful, capable, etc...) than women. We take a man for his word, while needing her to explain herself. We mistake his confidence for competence, while mistaking her lack of confidence for incompetence. Written with words like 'mansplain', 'mand...read more