In particular: "so many of the attitudes her work unveils are of an 'unconscious nature,' which makes beating them back particularly difficult" and "male leaders may think they are elevating women, not stifling them."
There's other research suggesting that "being made aware" of the problem helps male leaders adjust behavior.
There's significant pressure to not talk about sexism directly and just address this as a conflict between two individiuals (see antirez's rant) -- even though the research says that talking about about sexism and fairness concepts changes the behavior of management.
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/06/im-not-y...
In particular: "so many of the attitudes her work unveils are of an 'unconscious nature,' which makes beating them back particularly difficult" and "male leaders may think they are elevating women, not stifling them."
There's other research suggesting that "being made aware" of the problem helps male leaders adjust behavior.
http://www.20-first.com/690-0-improving-the-gender-balance-a... (see the section on "diversity training")
And this article about the effect of belief that an organization is meritocratic on fairness:
http://m.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/careers/care...
There's significant pressure to not talk about sexism directly and just address this as a conflict between two individiuals (see antirez's rant) -- even though the research says that talking about about sexism and fairness concepts changes the behavior of management.