Finance Academy Gender Inequity Case Study

Kara Tan Bhala ()
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Kara Tan Bhala: Seven Pillars Institute for Global Finance and Ethics

Chapter Chapter 9 in Ethics in Finance, 2023, pp 95-108 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The story in this chapter tells of asymmetric power in a male-only finance department of a business school. The power allows both overt discrimination and implicit bias to operate against women in curriculum decisions and development. This chapter showcases the non-tangible forces aligning against a woman in the academy: systemic gender discrimination, unspoken power differentials, capitalist profit priorities, and implicit bias. The analysis offers an original insight, that two female archetypes lurk in the collective male unconscious: the handmaiden and the cheerleader. One way to correct systemic gender discrimination is by ensuring the number of women in power positions reaches a critical mass, rather than just the one or two who become tokens in their work area.

Keywords: Implicit bias; Handmaiden; Systemic gender discrimination; Sex stereotyping; Justice Theory; Human Rights; Duty based ethics; Utilitarianism; Natural law theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-34401-5_9

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