![]() She was supposed to be quiet when I was putting the baby to bed. Overnight, I expected my first-born (who was 2 at the time) to behave like a 10-year-old. I remember so clearly when my second daughter, Hazel, was born. How we expect them “color inside the lines” in so many facets of life and often forget what childhood is really about. I applauded her and oohed and ahhhed at how impressive it was she had not colored outside the lines.īut it got me thinking about how inappropriate our expectations for children so often are. The picture was beautiful…I could tell she had spent a lot of time working on it, meticulously choosing her crayons and doing everything she could to make it “perfect”… To color inside the lines.Īnd at 3 years old, she had done a nearly impeccable job. She handed over her Hello Kitty coloring page to me, a smile that stretched ear to ear and her chest puffed out so far I thought she might explode. It is letting your child learn and grow in the best way they know how…guiding them along the way but not expecting it to be “inside the lines.” ![]() It’s finding perfection in the imperfect. The authors write that companies can increase the number of women working in STEM by developing objective metrics that root out bias and making cultural shifts to eliminate it.Childhood is coloring outside the lines. As one biologist said: “You don’t know who you can trust. Forty-two percent of black women said that they worry that engaging with their colleagues on a social level could negatively impact their view of their competence.Nearly half of black and Latina women surveyed said they have been mistaken for administrative or custodial staff.More than 40 percent of Asian American women reported feeling pressured to play a stereotypically feminine role, such as the “office mother” or the “dutiful daughter.”.More than half the scientists surveyed said that they have been discouraged from displaying “masculine” behaviors such as being decisive or being direct when speaking their minds.Thirty-seven percent of Asian women say that their colleagues have suggested they step back from work after they had children. ![]() A full 77 percent of black women have encountered this issue. Two-thirds of the women reported that they have to prove their competence more often and with more vigor than their peers.The results made it quite clear that there are five distinct issues that push women out of the field: Having to constantly prove competence, needing to be “feminine enough,” having their commitment questioned when they have children, encountering manufactured competition between women, and being socially isolated. Their findings support the growing theory that the low numbers of women working in STEM fields isn’t solely due to a lack of candidates in the pipeline or even women who choose other careers that they feel will allow for better work-life balance. Hall-worked with the Association of Women in Science to survey 557 female scientists and interview 60 of them to gain insight into how bias impacts them on a daily basis. ![]() A study published in the Harvard Business Review found that not only are women struggling to get ahead in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) fields, but women of color are disproportionately impacted by bias and prejudice in the workplace. ![]()
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