General Article How to beat gender stereotypes: learn, speak up and react

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By Ina Toegel, Professor of Leadership and Organisational Change, IMD Business School and Maude Lavanchy, Research Associate, IMD Business School

Life is not fair; get used to it.” The famous first rule of Bill Gates’ 11 rules you will never learn in school resonates with everybody, but probably more with women than men.

According to the Global Gender Gap Index, 108 years are needed to close the global gender gap. While classical economic models predict that discrimination on the basis of cha...

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