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How progressive policies hide regressive cultural expectations

My company has a generous maternity leave policy but the cultural expectation is that committed employees don't actually use all of it.

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The gap between formal policies and informal cultural norms reveals how organizations maintain gender discrimination through social pressure.

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“Where Are You with Gender inequality — structural analysis?”

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