Ep 293: Womaning in India With Mahima Vashisht
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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Can Women Even Do Er Jobs?
Women have the same kind of jobs that men do, right? But there is a well documented phenomena called the brilliance bias which is that when i ask you to think of ten brilliant people, you'll probably name nine men. Because we think that brilliance is a very male trait. Women also don't have access to menters at work for this reason because either male mentors are creepy themselves or there's something creepy going on between a male menter and female menty. Men have the permission to fail over and over again, and will b given many more chances to fail than a woman. If as a woman, you fail once, immediately you'll be labeled are because its cabacisle fa
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