The article discusses the profound impact of biases on individuals, particularly children and women. Research indicates that children as young as six associate intelligence with boys over girls, leading girls to doubt their capabilities. This bias continues into middle schools, where female students exhibit lower performance in math when taught by biased teachers. Consequently, these girls opt for less challenging academic paths, limiting their career prospects. In the workplace, the article notes that female managers feel pressured to counter biases, spending excessive time on tasks that prove their competence, which detracts from their overall productivity.
Our biases have far-reaching consequences for others, and when constantly reinforced, they can turn into a self-fulfilling prophecy.
By age six, research suggests, American children have absorbed the association of intellectual brilliance and genius with men more than women.
In Italian middle schools, girls underperformed in math when they were assigned a math teacher with strong unconscious beliefs that boys are better at math.
In grocery stores, female managers were found to allocate disproportionately more time to tasks that allowed them to disprove negative gender stereotypes.
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