Women are 14% less likely to be promoted than their male colleagues because they are seen as having less potential — despite having higher performance ratings.
... [+]Work hard, produce stellar results, receive a top performance rating and a promotion is on the horizon. That's how it should work, but this process doesn't happen consistently. According to a study out ofwhich looked at 30,000 employees at a large retail chain, women, on average, received higher performance ratings than their male colleagues — yet still were marked as having less potential than said colleagues.
This begs the larger question of how we decide who to promote. What biases are leading us to make the wrong decisions? And, more importantly, how does this lack of promotion exacerbate the gender pay gap?Promotion decisions are generally based on a mix of evaluating past performance and predicting future performance. Past performance, while easier to quantify, does have a level of subjectivity involved.
Potential is largely defined as an individual's ability to contribute to the company in the future. Unfortunately, potential can't be directly observed as can past performance. This leaves room for bias to creep in.One very outdated mindset hampering a woman’s ability to be marked for promotion is that some simply find it hard to see a woman as a leader.
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