Blind to Bias

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If you aren’t a white man the ensuing text may be face-palmingly obvious. But for people who look like me it might be a revelation. And that gap is precisely the point I hope to address. Unfortunately, when women or ethnic minorities speak about prejudice they are often penalized for being selfish. By contrast, white men are seen as altruistic for leading the same conversation. I deserve no such credit and I am not an expert on this issue. But without everyone’s voices represented we cannot make progress as a society. So I am speaking out. I have always believed deeply in equality. I prided myself on being an outspoken supporter of women in my life and my career. I knew women who would attest that I helped their careers. I had a gender balanced senior staff and meetings. So when I first heard the research from Lean In that forms the basis of Facebook’s Managing Bias course, I fought hard against the premise that I too could be biased or bad for women. My resistance got even stronger wh

Blind to Bias If you aren’t a white man the ensuing text may be face-palmingly obvious. But for people who look like me it might be a revelation. And that gap is precisely the point I hope to address. Unfortunately, when women or ethnic minorities speak about prejudice they are often penalized for being selfish . By contrast, white men are seen as altruistic for leading the same conversation. I deserve no such credit and I am not an expert on this issue. But without everyone’s voices represented we cannot make progress as a society. So I am speaking out. I have always believed deeply in equali

Blind to Bias

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