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More Women In Power, Less Trust In Them
Wed Nov 30

• The pandemic: Women lost their jobs or left the labor force to pick up childcare responsibilities during the pandemic, which solidified traditional roles.
• Fear: Economic uncertainty and other crises have stirred a fear that moves us towards our most familiar concepts of safety and security.
• Social/political conversations: The overturn of Roe v Wade and Trump’s misogynistic comments have likely normalized sexism to some degree.
• Social media: Heavily misogynistic content spread on social media has led to much misinformation about women. Additionally, young men who grew up connected to the online world are feeling emasculated by changing norms and seem to gravitate towards anti-feminism.
• The “glass cliff”: Women are more likely put in top corporate positions only when the risk of failure is particularly high. At the same time, the media tends to blame company failures on female leaders but not males in the same situation.
• The status quo: Those who benefit from inequality will fight against change but there’s also the challenge of trusting something that doesn’t fit our idea of normal.

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