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"text": " Hello and welcome to Podcasting House."
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"text": " If this is your first time listening, let me explain what's going on."
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"text": " If you like it, you can search for it using whatever app or webpage you're using right"
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"text": " now."
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"text": " My name's Eli and as always I'm joined by Rian and I guess this is the study of Podcasting"
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"text": " Yeah, I'm bringing analysis to you which is a long running radio program on Radio 4 and"
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"text": " this is the podcast episode and the one I've got is about unconscious bias and it's presented"
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"text": " by Mary Ann C. Cart."
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"text": " So every of analysis takes a different theme, a kind of current theme and she is looking"
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"text": " at unconscious bias but it's about how women can be biased against women and she looks"
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"text": " at the various reasons."
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"text": " It's all about your reptilian reign, can I?"
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"text": " She talks about, she talks to neuroscientists and various people who've done experiments"
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"text": " check against it and it's really quite scary when you realise how much of your behaviour"
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"text": " Right, all right so let's give it a listen."
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"text": " Analysis"
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"text": " Hello and welcome to a shiny new series of analysis."
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"text": " The series which tries to understand the ideas behind the news."
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"text": " If you haven't yet subscribed to our podcast feed, well what are you waiting for?"
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"text": " I'm the editor Hugh Levinson and little while ago I was talking to the journalist Mary"
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"text": " Ann C. Cart."
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"text": " She was starting work on a book about bias against women."
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"text": " I asked her what she thought was the most surprising aspect of her research and this"
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"text": " I hope you enjoy it."
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"text": " I've been a feminist all my life because I get infuriated by how often men are biased"
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"text": " against women, yet even I probably have an unconscious bias against other women too."
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"text": " Are you surprised by that?"
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"text": " Well I certainly am and that's what this programme is going to be all about, women's"
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"text": " own bias."
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"text": " How does it show itself?"
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"text": " Where does it come from?"
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"text": " It's not just me."
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"text": " Hollywood actor Ann Hathaway recently admitted to implicit sexist bias when she was working"
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"text": " on the film One Day, directed by Lona Scherfig."
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"text": " I really regret not trusting her more easily and I am to this day scared that the reason"
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"text": " She was speaking on ABC's Popcorn with Peter Travis show."
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"text": " I'm so scared that I treated her with internalised misogyny."
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"text": " When I see a film, a first film directed by a woman, I have in the past focused on what"
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"text": " I wonder whether some literary agents who are disproportionately female might be doing"
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"text": " Focusing on what's wrong with a woman's work, rather than what's right with it."
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"text": " That could explain what happened to Catherine Nichols, a writer based in Boston."
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"text": " I was looking for a literary agent and the way that's done is you put together a letter"
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"text": " that describes your book and the first few pages and friends who were themselves accomplished"
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"text": " We're saying this is good to go, this is good work."
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"text": " And I only got two responses from agents asking to see the entire manuscript."
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"text": " And how many initial letters did you send?"
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"text": " 50."
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"text": " So two out of 50."
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"text": " Wanted to see the manuscript."
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"text": " It was really depressing, yeah."
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"text": " And that's, it was very disparaging."
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"text": " And that wasn't even wanting to represent me."
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"text": " That was even wanting to see the manuscript at all."
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"text": " And I just felt like I had run into a wall."
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"text": " Like I had nothing to lose by just trying this kind of, this kind of nutty plan to just"
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"text": " try it under a different name."
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"text": " So she chose a male name and submitted exactly the same novel again as a man."
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"text": " And remember, most of the agents she sent it to were women."
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"text": " I used the same letter, the same description of the novel, the same opening pages."
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"text": " And even within hours of sending out those letters through email, I was getting manuscript"
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"text": " It was shocking how fast it became obvious that there was a big difference."
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"text": " So did you send 50 of these letters out under the male name?"
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"text": " I did, yeah."
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"text": " And how many people said they wanted to see the manuscript when you had a male name?"
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"text": " 17."
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"text": " So 17 compared to two, which suggests that you were eight and a half times better writer"
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"text": " under a male name than a female name."
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"text": " Yeah, I was shocked."
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"text": " I'm not surprised."
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"text": " What about sort of critical reactions?"
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"text": " That was where I went from feeling flattered to feeling angry."
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"text": " As a man, I felt like the critical responses, they'd get into the structure of the book"
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"text": " or the thought processes of the characters, the mechanics of how the plot is controlled"
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"text": " or explodes."
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"text": " And all of that felt like it was making me a better writer."
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"text": " So what this suggests is that young male aspiring writers get far more help, don't they?"
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"text": " Not only do they get more interest in the first place, but they also get more coaching"
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"text": " and more encouragement."
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"text": " Absolutely, yeah, yeah."
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"text": " Did it give you an insight into what it must feel like to be a man?"
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"text": " My strong sense is it must feel amazing to be a man."
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"text": " You might be thinking this is just one woman's story, it's anecdotal."
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"text": " But there's scientific evidence of women's gender bias too."
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"text": " In one experiment, researchers sent out identical application forms for a lab manager position"
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"text": " to male and female science professors."
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"text": " The studies were exactly the same, but half had a male name and the other half a female."
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"text": " The study was co-authored by Professor John DeVideo of Yale University."
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"text": " We looked at their interest in terms of hiring the person, their perceptions of competence"
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"text": " of the person, and things like how much money they would pay the person if they hired"
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"text": " them for the job as a lab manager."
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"text": " And what was the result?"
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"text": " The result was that gender bias still exists and professors and the sciences were more likely"
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"text": " to see the male as more horrible than the female."
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"text": " They were more likely to see the male as more competent than the female and they were"
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"text": " also more likely to pay the male lab manager more money even though their CVs were identical."
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"text": " Did you not ask also whether this professor would be interested in mentoring the candidate?"
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"text": " Yes, we also looked at mentoring and mentoring as well, different."
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"text": " And were these differences statistically significant?"
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"text": " They were all statistically significant and the gender of the professor who received the CVs"
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"text": " didn't make a difference."
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"text": " The bias was of the same magnitude, whether the professor was a woman or a man."
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"text": " That's ahead I think in the next three or four weeks. Right okay sort of a how-to."
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