Abstract
If, as we believe, a gender bias persists in our large companies and it is imposing an opportunity cost on shareholders, its removal is in everyone’s interests. But you can’t begin to remove a bias before you have acknowledged its existence. For a bias to be remediable, it must first become discussable.
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Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus, John Gray, HarperCollins, 1992.
A man’s game in need of women, Financial Times, July 26, 2004.
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© 2005 Peninah Thomson and Jacey Graham
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Thomson, P., Graham, J., Lloyd, T. (2005). Conversations with kings. In: A Woman’s Place is in the Boardroom. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230514126_4
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