{"id":5503,"date":"2012-10-17T11:52:58","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T15:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/?p=5503"},"modified":"2012-10-17T15:48:02","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T19:48:02","slug":"a-binder-full-of-women-in-every-pot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2012\/10\/a-binder-full-of-women-in-every-pot.html","title":{"rendered":"A Binder Full of Women in Every Pot!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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I tend to watch the debates with Twitter and Facebook open. \u00a0When both candidates are committed to not answering the question asked, my temper gets short, and I need the snarky tweets of Tristyn<\/a> to be able to go on without hitting something. \u00a0So I saw the memification of \u201cbinders full of women\u201d play out in real time, and I was ticked off.<\/p>\n

If you care to pop over to\u00a0The Huffington Post<\/em>, I have a piece up praising the actual content of Romney\u2019s answer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

There are a lot of things about Romney I don\u2019t like, but what he did to address sexism was excellent, and I\u2019m frustrated it\u2019s being treated as a laugh line by other liberals. What he did was (sadly) pretty remarkable:<\/p>\n

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  1. Romney noticed they weren\u2019t thinking of hiring women<\/li>\n
  2. He assumed this indicated a problem with his team\u2019s process instead of evidence that no qualified women existed<\/li>\n
  3. He realized he and his team didn\u2019t know how to find well-qualified women<\/li>\n
  4. So he turned to womens\u2019 groups for guidance<\/li>\n
  5. And then he hired women!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Most organizations don\u2019t make it very far past step one. They assume the dearth of qualified women is a fact about the world, not evidence of their own bias or problems in the pipeline. Even though, just this month, another study came out showing that men and women rate a sample resume as less qualified if there\u2019s a woman\u2019s name at the top of the page<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    Reporting the day after reveals that Romney didn\u2019t take as much initiative to gather data as he claimed<\/a>, but I\u2019d love to have more people come out to praise the story he told as a model for executives and HR folks.<\/p>\n

    When we talk about male privilege<\/a>, people\u2019s hackles go up. \u00a0Are we just telling them that they suck? \u00a0That they suck too much to be able to act? \u00a0Nope! \u00a0We\u2019re saying you need more data, and you may need help noticing what kind of data you need. \u00a0In his story, Romney turned to others when he lacked expertise, and didn\u2019t resent them for helping him deal with a blind spot.<\/p>\n

    His anecdote may not have been true, but I sure wish other people would make it so.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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