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How the Performance Review Gap Hurts Women Careers
Performance reviews are supposed to be objective, but research shows women consistently receive lower ratings than equally qualified men, even when their actual output is identical. In this episode, Lucas and Luna dig into a 2023 study of 45,000 professionals that found women's reviews contain 2.5 times more personality criticism than men's, while men's reviews focus on technical skills. They explore how vague language like 'too aggressive' or 'not confident enough' — coded feedback that rarely appears in men's evaluations — silently compounds into slower promotion cycles and smaller raises…
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