Overcoming unconscious gender bias
Channel: UNCTAD
Date: 2021-04-08

Unconscious gender bias undermines progress on gender equality and blocks women’s career advancement. 

What’s unconscious gender bias?

It’s assuming that a man in the meeting is in charge and a women is the assistant. It’s our automatic mental associations based on gender 
It comes from traditions, norms, values, culture and experience.

The problem is that it influences decision-making and leads to different opportunities for women and men.

In this video, three women who have overcome biases in their careers share their experiences and recommendations. Hear from Isabelle Durant, UNCTAD's acting secretary-general, Tatiana Valovaya, director-general of the United Nations Office at Geneva, and Susan Pozo, professor of economics at Western Michigan University.