6.25.2009

Gender Bias

Here's an interesting article arguing that there is discrimination against female playwrights BUT the discrimination is the work of women, not men. Briefly, identical scripts with male and female names attached were submitted for evaluation. Men rated the scripts with male and female names exactly the same; women rated the scripts by women lower and those by men higher. Even if we know the word is not the thing, the label is not the item, the map is not the territory, we seem to act as if they are one and the same.

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