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The Performance Review Words That Hurt Women Careers
Lucas and Luna dig into a 2025 study from the University of Texas tracking 50,000 performance reviews at a Fortune 500 company. They find that women receive feedback describing them as 'emotional,' 'bossy,' or 'abrasive' at 3x the rate of men, while men get specific developmental language like 'needs to improve forecasting.' The hosts examine why these narrative differences compound over time, how they shape promotion eligibility, and what one HR team did to rewrite the playbook. They also explore whether the rise of AI-written performance summaries might actually reduce gender bias—or just…
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