The gender authority gap is the subconscious bias that assumes women are less capable than their male counterparts until they prove otherwise. This burden of proving one’s competence hinders communication and collaboration in the workplace.
Do you have a personal, first-hand account of the authority gap affecting your professional life? We invite you to anonymously submit your experiences related to presumed authority.
We understand that reflecting on your experience is intellectual and emotional work, and not everyone has the capacity for it right now. Thank you for taking the time to share your story, we hope that it helps others to not endure the same in the future.
The collection of stories will be filtered by the WISE organizing committee into themes that our panel of experts will help guide us on. Please, limit 1 story per submission. If you'd like to submit another story, please do so in another instance.
Each submission will give you a chance to win a book by one of our expert panelists, Dr. Kate Thomas – “Five 'Survive' Lockdown”, a graphic novella highlighting the COVID-19 lockdown experience of five women in different career stages in academia; or “The Authority Gap” by Marie Ann Sieghart, which inspired this year's theme.
The winning story IDs will be randomly selected at the end of the conference. Postage will be covered by the WISE organizing committee.
