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New research suggests that organizations wishing to avoid gender stereotyping in the hiring or promotion process-and employ the most productive person instead—should evaluate job candidates as a group, rather than one at a time.

“A lot of discrimination happens because of implicit biases where people like you and me —who don’t want to do the wrong thing, who don’t want to discriminate, or don’t want to treat people differently based on their demographic characteristics—fall into these stereotype traps because stereotypes have something to do with how the world is,” says Bohnet. “As long as we don’t see women in leadership positions, for example, we don’t associate leadership with women. I thought if that is true, then I can treat that mistake the way I treat other mistakes people make.”

(Source: danielr.neophi.com)