Gender Bias Bingo

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You may think you’ve never suffered or inflicted it. But are you sure you even know what it is?

Gender bias is not the same as sex discrimination. It’s more subtle, more deeply embedded in cultural norms about what it means to be identified as a woman or a man.

A provocative new Web site developed by the Center for Work Life Law at the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law announces a “zany brainy look at a serious subject.” It invites people to enter their experiences in a game of Gender Bias Bingo.

The playing card consists of nine boxes aligned in three rows and columns, with each box describing forms of gender bias, such as hitting a “Maternal Wall” based on unfair expectations of mothers, or “Double Binds” when women are urged to behave like men but penalized when they do.

One box, labeled “Frigid Climate for Fathers,” speaks to men’s experiences in the workplace, while another, “Gender Wars,” describes conflicts among women workers about appropriate womanly behavior. “Double Jeopardy” comes into play when racial or ethnic stereotypes combine with those based on gender.