Sexism and racism or any other ism for that matter.

I have never understood why as a leader you would limit your choices. If you are confident in your leadership skills then you ensure that you choose those that best suit the needs of the situation. It seems odd to me that issues related to the sex of the person should be a contributing factor.

It is so hard to get the right person in the right role. You must look at things dispassionately assess the skills, personality and fit, where the ism’s fit in this process I don’t know. Often who we don’t use says more about ourselves than it does about the candidates.

Prejudice is insidious it creeps in around the edges; it is a by-product of our upbringing. We are conditioned to hold a lens of own experiences to all activities and unless we critically evaluate what we see and how we react we are always going to repeat learned behaviours

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Some are better equipped than others to do the introspection but unless it is done we will always react the same way to the same stimulus. Back to isms we can’t let our own prejudices limit our ability to get the right people in the right roles. Female, Male, Gay, different religions, races, cultures whatever it shouldn’t matter let’s try and get it right.