Gender bias: Data shows it’s still alive and well [infographic]

This Breaking Thru Bias infographic was prepared from data compiled by Kelly Dozois. Sources and related articles include:

• Women's Leadership Gap: Women’s Leadership by the Numbers by Judith Warner and Danielle Corley, Center for American Progress
• Progress on the Gender Pay Gap: 2019 - by Dr. Andrew Chamberlain on Glassdoor
• Bias Interrupters - Tools for Managers
• White, male, named Andrew? You've got a good chance to become a CEO - The Sydney Morning Herald
• Women in the Workplace - McKinsey & Co.

Additional gender bias data points:

• Women accounted for just 17% of all the directors, executive producers, producers, writers, cinematographers, and editors who worked on the top-grossing 250 domestic films of 2016.¹⁷
• A recent study of performance evaluations in tech found that 66% of women’s performance reviews contained negative personality criticism (“You come off as abrasive.”) whereas only 1% of men’s reviews did.
• We know now that workplaces that view themselves as being highly meritocratic often are, in fact, more biased than other organizations
• One-shot diversity trainings, mentoring and networking programs—typically don’t work.(3⁾
• Women are 25-46% more likely to be hired with blind applications or auditions.
• Half of men believe women are well-represented at their company, when 90% of senior leaders are men.
• Women and men ask for pay raises at the same rate.
• Women receive pay raises 5% less often.
• On a survey that asked people to describe a job, more than 60% of the participants listed gender when describing particular jobs, eg: Paramedic: male, caring, alert - Peter Glick
• Women with children are 79% less likely to be hired , 50% as likely to be promoted, and earn less than women without children. - Shelley, Bernaed &In Paik
• In a survey of 3,000 people, 45% of women compared to 20% of men experienced their employer questioning their commitment to the job post children; 68% of women believe that gender discrimination exists in the workplace - Catalyst 2010
• Only 11 ASX200 (top 200 Australia companies)  have female CEOs, down from 12 in 2018; men named Andrew were 27% more likely to be CEOs than women. -  2019 study, Conrad Liveris
• In a large survey of engineers and law professionals, when asked do: “Other people get credit for ideas that I originally offered,” 1/3 of the white men said yes. Close to 50% of women and people of color said yes. - Williams, Li, Rincon, Finn, 2017
• Women are still paid an average of about 80 cents to a man’s dollar for comparable work - San Francisco  - Status of Women Executive study, 2016: Women earn just 71% of what men with the same education make.
• Women hold only 24.9 percent of seats in state legislatures.⁵⁰
• They are only 10% of governors ⁵¹ and only 20% of the mayors of the 100 largest American cities.⁵²

Clock photo:
Erik Witsoe