A WGEA study has shown that women constitute 38.4% of all full-time employees and 68.5% of all part-time employees. Aside from this obvious gap in workforce strength, there is a pattern in the kinds of unconscious bias that women face in the workplace.
- Women are often forced to “prove themselves” at work, showing better results with very little room for failure.
- Women must walk a tightrope to ensure they don’t come off as too “feminine” (aka weak or fragile) or too “forceful” (aka rude or dominating).
- Even in 2022, women at work are still subject to sexual harassment, objectification, pay gaps, and cliched biases.
Women are constantly battling these biases and still doing their best to push through and emerge successful. One the occasion of International Women’s Day, 2022, IWD launched the #BreakTheBias campaign to spread awareness around these challenges. In this spirit, our fellow ansrsource team members share their stories and vow to #BreakTheBias.
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- Sarah Stricker talks about barriers that exist in education due to gender bias. She walks us through how this bias is prominent, especially in STEM disciplines. Let’s strive to #BreakTheBias!
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- Vanessa Fludd talks about the opportunities and respect women deserve wherever they are. She vows to #BreakTheBias
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- Jamie Beth Schindler talks about bias and stereotypes against women through generations and shares an example of her own grandmother. Biases have often cropped up at a young age when educational opportunities are taken away from young girls even though they are intelligent. These stereotypes exist even to this day!
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- Cibani Premkumar talks about inclusion in the workplace.
- Cibani Premkumar talks about inclusion in the workplace.
- Arpita Banerjee shares encouraging words for women to break all barriers to be themselves.
At ansrsource, we pledge to #BreakTheBias and support all the amazing women on our team and in the world as they work to achieve their dreams, big or small. We wish everyone a very happy International Women’s Day, as we strive to make the world a better place for women.
