The bias against women in leadership has long been discussed.
Research has covered this in many different areas. Just a few examples are:
- the higher likelihood that men will be hired over women, when both groups are equally qualified,
- to politics where, in 2022, only 45% of people in the G7 felt very comfortable with a woman running their country, down from 52% in 2021,
- to half of women in STEM jobs report experiencing discrimination at work. That climbs to 74% if narrowed to just women who work in computer-specific jobs.
Bias does not exist in small bubbles, confining itself to specific one group over another. Instead, it exists in multi-faceted ways, in the same ways that people are multi-faceted. In this case, women are not a monolith and should not be treated as such.