{"id":4817,"date":"2020-02-23T15:36:45","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T20:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/?p=4817"},"modified":"2020-02-23T15:36:45","modified_gmt":"2020-02-23T20:36:45","slug":"stereotype-threat-women-and-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/2020\/02\/23\/stereotype-threat-women-and-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Stereotype threat, women, and leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hoyt and Murphy\u2019s paper was all too familiar. While I\u2019m a Jepson major, I have two science minors and am on the pre-med track and have felt almost every single thing they described in their paper. I\u2019ve had so many of my parents (male) doctor friends \u201cencourage\u201d me to explore options other than med school or disciplines they deem easier because they\u2019ve internalized the stereotype that women are supposed to be the nurturing caretakers. One of the reasons I\u2019ve maintained that I can go to med school is because of the role models I\u2019ve been lucky enough to find along the way. In high school, I was lucky enough to shadow Mass General\u2019s head of OB who was a woman with two daughters who attended my high school. She was extremely honest with me about having a family while working full time as a physician, but encouraged me nonetheless to do so myself. I\u2019d probably still be on my same path without her, but I can only imagine how much more doubt in my abilities I\u2019d have. Representation and role models matter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I really liked the phrase they used of how women were less averse to tasks like initiating negotiations when they were \u201cprimed with power\u201d (392). To me, this shows how powerful the simple act of telling women they are just as capable can have. It also reminded me a lot of imposter syndrome that I know a lot of women in STEM and other male-dominated fields face. They feel like they don\u2019t deserve to be in their position because they\u2019re a woman and that the people (men) around them are much smarter, more capable, etc. and causes them to withdraw and doubt themselves. If we made it a habit to prime women with power and remind them of their abilities through words, actions, and providing attainable role models, I imagine it might help close the disparity of women in leadership positions. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hoyt and Murphy\u2019s paper was all too familiar. While I\u2019m a Jepson major, I have two science minors and am on the pre-med track and have felt almost every single thing they described in their paper. I\u2019ve had so many of my parents (male) doctor friends \u201cencourage\u201d me to explore options other than med school [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4446,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-responses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4446"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}