This episode brings together our artifacts and articles to show how gender inequality isn’t random or isolated; it’s patterned and deeply rooted. We start with Virginia Valian’s Sex, Schemas, and Success which helps explain how small, unconscious biases quietly shape how men and women are judged over time. We also draw on Jean H. Block’s work on gender socialization to show how these expectations begin in childhood, long before anyone enters a profession. Then we connect those ideas to real-word examples using a Havard Law School article on women being shut out of key legal networks and Inequities Faced by Female Doctors Serving Communities of Need, which shows similar patterns in medicine. Together, these sources make it clear that the same system keeps showing up across different fields.
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