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While we may want to believe that gender differences don’t matter, there is significant evidence7 across fields and industries that gender biases, discrimination, and sexism still exist.8 In fact, recent numbers show us how women, in particular, are disadvantaged: in US S&P 500 companies, women hold only 19.9% of board seats and comprise only 26.9% of new board seat appointments.9
Sometimes, we also hear people state that since they haven’t personally experienced or witnessed exclusion based on gender, race, or ethnicity, then it doesn’t exist in their workplace.
But this sense of distance does not take into account the unique experiences other people may have.
In many cases, there is a “think leader, think male” stereotype that can disrupt our ability to build inclusive workplaces and gender bias can become embedded in work processes and systems.10