Gender bias or intimidation? Why sex discrimination isn’t business’s biggest problem

When I entered the Austin airport on the heels of the SXSW conference last week, a group of female colleagues approached me, excited to tell me what had happened the day before. During a panel discussion that included Google chairman Eric Schmidt and U.S. chief technology officer Megan Smith, Schmidt interrupted Smith a number of times. That wasn’t what generated the women’s discussion. It was that Judith Williams, a Google employee tasked with fighting unconscious bias, stood up and pointed Schmidt’s interruptions out to him. The women at the airport were blown away that someone had publicly taken on one of their biggest frustrations.

By Linda Bernardi

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