Category: Workplace Culture

Aggressive, bossy, dramatic. Chances are, if you’re a women, you’ve heard these word used to describe — and demean — you or a coworker. 

That needs to change. To alter the way people think and talk about ambitious women, the global nonprofit Catalyst, with the help of New York-based agency Burns Group and technology company Eskalera, launched the #BiasCorrect plug-in and campaign, which aims to combat unconscious bias in the workplace by flagging problematic words employees write in Slack and other chat platforms. Similar to spell-check, the tool highlights words like “cold” and “aggressive” and then recommends alternatives, such as “focused” and “persuasive.”  Read more…

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