Level the Paying Field

S2E6 - Confronting bias to close the gender wage gap

Level the Paying Field

Show Notes

Kadie Ward, Commissioner and CAO of Ontario's Pay Equity Commission, and Dr. Anthony Greenwald, Professor Emeritus, University of Washington, and co-author of “Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People”, discuss hidden or implicit biases that contribute to the gender wage gap. Together, they review possible approaches to remedying discriminatory biases.

The papers referred to in this episode can be found at: Project Implicit (Implicit Association Tests) Implicit-Bias Remedies: Treating Discriminatory Bias as a Public-Health Problem

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