Therese Huston: Gender Bias in Feedback + What Women Can Do to Get & Use Effective Feedback

2022-08-04

Did you know that gender bias can negatively impact the quality of the feedback you get? Or that sometimes, you boss takes it in his head to be kind and benevolent and ends up hurting your growth? We discuss all that and more in this episode that's going to surprise, enrage, and educate you. Guest expert, Therese Huston is a cognitive scientist at Seattle University and the author of three books. Her latest book is Let’s Talk: Make Effective Feedback Your Superpower. In 2004, Therese founded the Center for Excellence in Teac...

Did you know that gender bias can negatively impact the quality of the feedback you get? Or that sometimes, you boss takes it in his head to be kind and benevolent and ends up hurting your growth?

We discuss all that and more in this episode that's going to surprise, enrage, and educate you.

Guest expert, Therese Huston is a cognitive scientist at Seattle University and the author of three books. Her latest book is Let’s Talk: Make Effective Feedback Your Superpower. In 2004, Therese founded the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Seattle University. Her last book, How Women Decide, was named a summer reading title by Oprah.com and called “required reading on Wall Street” by the New York Times. Therese has written for many publications including the New York Times, the Guardian, and Harvard Business Review.

Therese shares with us what she has learned from research and from talking to women who have been at the receiving end of biased feedback, why is this happening, what can we do to remedy the situation.

Shownotes-

00:42 - Topic Introduction

04:10 - Why Therese chose to focus her writings and work on women in workforce

06:30 - What led to writing about and researching the subject of gender bias in feedback?

09:15 - What we generally assume when we are given bad feedback

10:28 - Could the bias be deliberate?

12:30 - Signs that you are being given biased feedback

16:50 - 'Prove-It Again' bias against women and 'Protective Hesitation' when giving critical feedback

21:30 - Is bias also showing up when promotions and projects are granted?

26:00 - Are women more aggressive than men?

28:40 - How to solicit effective feedback?

31:30 - How to identify bias in the feedback you've received?