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The Gender Bias: The Barriers That Hold Women Back, And How To Break Them
Dr Sabrina Cohen-Hatton
3.97 AVERAGE
20 reviews for:
The Gender Bias: The Barriers That Hold Women Back, And How To Break Them
Dr Sabrina Cohen-Hatton
3.97 AVERAGE
reflective
slow-paced
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
challenging
informative
medium-paced
informative
inspiring
slow-paced
informative
reflective
medium-paced
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
challenging
informative
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
“I hadn’t yet appreciated that failing doesn’t make you a failure.”
This book is so well written and researched and I highly recommend everyone read it!
Sabrina is a firefighter and so we get real life experiences from her and well researched data and statistics about the bias that we have in all areas of society andhow that is detrimental to both women and men and our society as a whole.
She speaks about women in positions of power and how they are viewed and whether they are “feminine” enough and discusses capability vs likability.
She discusses the glass cliff (highly recommend everyone read up on this) and how women are often put in leadership positions only once the place is already failing and that means they are more likely to fail and how then that failure is blamed on the woman and her lack of leadership ability.
How socio economic factors are affecting women and how living in poverty means that they cannot think about progressing when they have to worry about paying bills.
How our society is just not set up to support parents especially mothers in managing a work life balance and often the mother is struggling without much help. How there needs to be more support and flexibility to allow parents to manage their daily lives.
How jobs that are considered a mans job are often places where women aren’t welcome and it is much harder to succeed in that area. How even safety features could only be designed with men in mind and so not work for women.
She touches on how being a woman of colour or of a different religious background will make things even harder for women already facing barriers and fighting biases.
It was interesting to read how these biases and barriers are not just men but also women are perpetuating the same thing. From asking mothers if that job (for her it’s firefighting) is something they should be doing because what about their kids but being in awe of the father for doing something that is so selfless.
I was well and truly hooked and even though it made me feel so much rage it was also hopeful and I especially loved that at the end of each section she discussed ways in which we can actually make changes to reduce their biases and barriers. We all need to look at our own biases and actively remind ourselves when we start to fall into it.
This book is so well written and researched and I highly recommend everyone read it!
Sabrina is a firefighter and so we get real life experiences from her and well researched data and statistics about the bias that we have in all areas of society andhow that is detrimental to both women and men and our society as a whole.
She speaks about women in positions of power and how they are viewed and whether they are “feminine” enough and discusses capability vs likability.
She discusses the glass cliff (highly recommend everyone read up on this) and how women are often put in leadership positions only once the place is already failing and that means they are more likely to fail and how then that failure is blamed on the woman and her lack of leadership ability.
How socio economic factors are affecting women and how living in poverty means that they cannot think about progressing when they have to worry about paying bills.
How our society is just not set up to support parents especially mothers in managing a work life balance and often the mother is struggling without much help. How there needs to be more support and flexibility to allow parents to manage their daily lives.
How jobs that are considered a mans job are often places where women aren’t welcome and it is much harder to succeed in that area. How even safety features could only be designed with men in mind and so not work for women.
She touches on how being a woman of colour or of a different religious background will make things even harder for women already facing barriers and fighting biases.
It was interesting to read how these biases and barriers are not just men but also women are perpetuating the same thing. From asking mothers if that job (for her it’s firefighting) is something they should be doing because what about their kids but being in awe of the father for doing something that is so selfless.
I was well and truly hooked and even though it made me feel so much rage it was also hopeful and I especially loved that at the end of each section she discussed ways in which we can actually make changes to reduce their biases and barriers. We all need to look at our own biases and actively remind ourselves when we start to fall into it.