Erasing Institutional Bias

Chapter Four

Gender Bias

In the United States, gender is a Title VII protected category for good reason. From the moment women were finally granted access to jobs that were historically reserved for men, they have been taken for granted. Women in the workplace have been underpaid, mistreated, exploited, humiliated, belittled, passed over, and dismissed from the very beginning. While one might expect there to be some friction during the early years of gender integration in the workplace, one would also expect time to smooth out that friction. Yes, women in the workplace have certainly fared better as the decades have rolled on, but women are still compensated less than men, they are still sexually harassed, and they are still massively underrepresented ...