Gender Bias And Gender Discrimination

See Power of Each Woman! Reducing implicit bias against females

When someone asks you to say a word about women, what is the first word that comes to your mind? Will it be president, CEO, or religious leader? Intentionally, most people or organizations think they treat female in the same way as male. However, female is discriminated and marginalized in various aspects. It is male who have resources, political power, and career opportunities; female is on the edge of the society. So no matter you deny or not, almost everyone has unconscious bias against female, even for women themselves. More precisely, according to the Kirwan Institute for the study of Race and Ethnicity, unconscious bias is also known as implicit bias; it refers to “attitudes or stereotypes that affect our understanding, actions, and decisions in an unconscious manner”. It is shocking! Women approximately make up fifty percent of the world’s population, but they are actually the biggest marginalized group that are lack of opportunities. So reducing the implicit bias against female is definitely worth thinking. In my perspective, the best way to reduce implicit bias against women is leading people to explore individual’s characteristics instead of stereotyping a group.

For reducing implicit bias, we should know where implicit bias toward women comes from? The stereotype of woman means people are adopted about thinking woman in a specific way. It is the fact that people stereotype female as a weak group subconsciously and this is usually caused by people’s early life experience and the hint from their surroundings. For example, a ten-year-old boy saw his grandmother and mother always stay at home, doing housework. What he saw will exercise an invisible and formati...

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...the opportunity, there is no way she can achieve her dream and the world will lose a great scientist. So just as what Lisa Marie Jenkins says in the article Unconscious Gender Bias: Everyone’s Issue, “Unconscious gender bias is not a women’s issue, it is everyone’s issue” and “we can’t change what we don’t see”. Everyone is supposed to see the fact that man is not better than woman and support woman to earn what they deserve. To achieve this goal, we should start from stopping stereotyping and seeing each woman’s merits.

All in all, it is the world’s loss if the whole world refuse to provide appropriate opportunities to woman. In order to reduce implicit bias, the best solution is to advocate people to see the merits of individuals, stop stereotyping and acknowledge female can also do great things. Only via this way, we can abstain a more diverse and fair world.