Women in technology
fromFast Company
18 hours agoHow the 'empathy trap' keeps women out of leadership roles
Power dynamics often hinder progress, allowing inequity to persist despite awareness.
Trust begins with realness. When lawyers share their story and the reason behind their work, clients see themselves reflected in that narrative. Clients are not simply hiring legal skill; they are looking for alignment, empathy, and shared values. Storytelling bridges that gap.
Meta's new Model Capability Initiative will track the mouse movements, clicks, and keystrokes of its US employees to generate high-quality training data for future AI agents. This software will operate on specific work-related apps and websites, and will also utilize periodic screenshots to provide context for the AI training.
For decades, work was designed around a fiction, that of the 'neutral' worker, an abstract individual assumed to be fully available, consistent, rational, and unaffected by bodily constraints. But this neutrality was never real.
Companies with a higher number of women in senior roles are significantly more likely to dismiss male perpetrators of abuse against female colleagues, according to recent analysis.
When everyone thinks and talks similarly, miscommunications are rare. When that is not the case, it can be surprisingly easy to say one thing and have the person on the other side hear something completely different. It increases the chances that our natural way of working is different. It makes assumptions and expectations more dangerous, as they are more likely to be misaligned.