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Sexism Is Everywhere

Women at Work

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Challenges of Gender Bias and Self-Gaslighting in the Workplace

A listener shares her experience of gender bias in the engineering field and questions whether it is real or imagined, while the host explores the concept of positive intent and self-gaslighting in addressing gender bias.

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One of our listeners who actually works in engineering, she's mid career. She emailed us a few years ago. And this is really stuck with me. This letter, she feels like she has to do much more than her male counterparts to get the promotions to get the recognition. She
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tells herself it could have nothing to do with gender, but
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her gut is telling her it has a lot to do with gender and it's completely exhausting. And so she's asking how do I think about this in a way where I feel less like I'm imagining things and I can sort of trust my gut and less like I'm using sexism as an excuse. Part of the reason this stuck with me so much is I'd worry about when we tell people assume positive intent or when we encourage people to focus on what's your goal. I worry that there's a little bit of self gaslighting that happens that of like, oh, let's just ignore the gender bias because
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it's too hard to consider or it's too big
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or too ambiguous.

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