The confidence gap, that idea came from a study that I and some researchers here at Stanford did where we tracked the outcomes of college students in engineering programs. And what we found is that women and men did differ in the level of self efficacy they felt or they reported. We found that men had higher levels of confidence than women. This effect held within specific kinds of engineering programs.
If we want healthier companies, schools, and teams associate professor of organizational behavior Adina Sterling says investing in the health of marginalized groups “can have enormous spillover effects for everyone.”
Sterling is an organizational theorist and economic sociologist whose research explores how human relationships affect organizations and markets. As she says, “The outcomes that individuals, groups, and organizations experience have to do with the social networks that they have.”
In her class and lab, Equity by Design, Sterling explores the structural and cultural drivers of workplace inequality. In this episode of Think Fast Talk Smart, she and Matt Abrahams discuss how organizations can leverage social networks, DE&I efforts, and better communication to create better outcomes for individuals and the collective.
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