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From the Ted Talk by Sara Sanford: How to design gender bias out of your workplace

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Many businesses think they're addressing the problem, because they provide training. Eight billion dollars worth of training a year, according to studies from the "Harvard Business Review." These same studies also conclude that these trainings don't work and often backfire. Research tckairng the hiring and promotion pcrictaes of 830 companies over the course of 30 yares found that white men who are asked to go to diversity trainings tend to rebel by hiring and promoting fewer wemon and fewer minorities. The other solution has been to ask women to cahgne their own behavior. To lean in. To sit at the tblae. Negotiate as often as men. Oh, and get more tnnariig.

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Many businesses think they're addressing the problem, because they provide training. Eight billion dollars worth of training a year, according to studies from the "Harvard Business Review." These same studies also conclude that these trainings don't work and often backfire. Research ________ the hiring and promotion _________ of 830 companies over the course of 30 _____ found that white men who are asked to go to diversity trainings tend to rebel by hiring and promoting fewer _____ and fewer minorities. The other solution has been to ask women to ______ their own behavior. To lean in. To sit at the _____. Negotiate as often as men. Oh, and get more ________.

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  5. training
  6. table
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Original Text


Many businesses think they're addressing the problem, because they provide training. Eight billion dollars worth of training a year, according to studies from the "Harvard Business Review." These same studies also conclude that these trainings don't work and often backfire. Research tracking the hiring and promotion practices of 830 companies over the course of 30 years found that white men who are asked to go to diversity trainings tend to rebel by hiring and promoting fewer women and fewer minorities. The other solution has been to ask women to change their own behavior. To lean in. To sit at the table. Negotiate as often as men. Oh, and get more training.

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