Although sexism is no longer overt in the workplace, evidence shows that it still exists. In the article "Exposing Hidden Bias at Google" Farhad Manjoo discusses the issues in the demographics of the company because about seventy percent of Google's employees are male.
Looking at the chart, one would wonder why males are dominating the company. The answer might lie within our unconscious biases towards women and their capabilities. Although an educated woman would be able to produce the same amount of work as another male on her level, our perspectives of them stemming from historical times still lingers on. Men still do not think of women as their equals.
Google has begun holding workshops and seminars to boost awareness of this flaw in their company to an unclear level of success. While there have been some anecdotes about people realizing what they or someone else was saying could possibly be sexist, there have been no result as to if the company really is changing. Spreading awareness is not enough. Women's rights activists of the past century have done that already. We need to instigate change. Analyzing our thought processes and the reason behind them is needed. Every time something about women pops up in our head, 'why' questions need to be asked.
We live in a world where gender equality seems to be the standard. We assume that women have achieved the same rights as their counterparts. This thought masks our awareness of the same issues the dominated eighties culture. We think that we are not being sexist in our behavior because that age is over. It is only when we stop to think about what we say and do can we begin to see the situation and gradually stop doing it.
