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The story in this chapter tells of asymmetric power in a male only finance department of a business school. The power allows both overt discrimination and implicit bias to operate against women in curriculum decisions and development. This chapter showcases the non-tangible forces aligning against a woman in the academy: systemic gender discrimination, unspoken power differentials, capitalist profit priorities, and implicit bias. The analysis offers an original insight, that two female archetypes lurk in the collective male unconscious: the handmaiden and the cheerleader. One way to correct systemic gender discrimination is by ensuring the number of women in power positions reaches a critical mass, rather than just the one or two who become tokens in their work area.
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Tan Bhala, K. (2021). Finance Academy Gender Inequity Case Study. In: Ethics in Finance. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73754-2_9
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