INTERVIEW DANIELLE WOODWARD PHOTOGRAPH PÅL HANSEN
shared values
Sexism makes me angry; it’s hard to get perspective when you’re in the middle of it, so you tend to assume, ‘I must be rubbish.’ I was once told I didn’t get a promotion because I didn’t have ‘gravitas’, but I was already working at that level. Did it mean that I didn’t have a beard or some other male appendage? We all need to tackle gender bias, as it’s unconscious and so pervasive, with women as well as men. Studies have shown that when people have seen CVs with names that suggest males and females, that the males will be scored more highly – and it’s not just men doing that.