My co-founder and I both care about gender equality but when we look at our hiring data and promotion patterns we see completely different things - she sees progress and individual merit at work, I see systemic patterns that keep replicating themselves. We're making decisions about company structure and I feel like we're building the same inequitable systems we said we wanted to change.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people committed to gender equality are operating from fundamentally different frameworks about whether workplace disparities reflect structural forces or individual circumstances.
“Where Are You with Gender inequality — structural analysis?”
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