Fast Company | Business + Innovation: Teamwork makes the dream work, or so the old leadership bromide would have us believe. The catch is that all members of said team deserve credit for playing their part. However, a new study from a Harvard researcher indicates that in group work—as in pay, leadership, board representation, and other areas—there’s an inequity between women and men.
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This is really frustrating, but sadly unsurprising. I’m glad Sarsons looked into this, because it is a very important finding. Very little work is truly individual. Most jobs involve working in a group/ on a team, and since our society has created sexist biases that make people unable to correctly credit women, that is only going to add to the factors that create a wage gap between women and men. What this article makes me wonder is what can be done about this. Maybe there is some way to assess a person’s contributions more objectively. My guess is this bias could be decreased just by putting more thought into these assessments. Obviously in the long term we need a cultural shift in the way our society perceives gender and gender roles. But, in the meantime, I hope we can find a way to counter this undervaluing of the contributions of women.
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