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To lots of folks, the mere suggestion that they think gender-biased, though often unconsciously, already sounds like personal criticism.

However, the reality and the truth are rather more complex. At any level of any organization, gender-biased thinking might occur, though often unconsciously.

This doesn’t just happen at the mid-management or office level. It occurs at all levels across organizations, and this ‘multi-level’ discrimination is hurting businesses across the board by denying women the much-needed voice in the decision-making process.

Well, the fact of the matter is that most people are naturally somewhat biased. Even people who intend to be totally fair will have a hard time letting their brains remain completely impartial.

Cognitive bias happens in all our brains. It’s our mind’s way of automatically generating associations related to different concepts.

These are the mental shortcuts that help us process information more rapidly, and they prevent our brains from getting overwhelmed with information details.

Instinctively, we tend to put people into categories, and to do that, we use criteria such as gender, age, skin color, accent, weight, education level, socioeconomic status, or sexuality.

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Saudi women rebelling!!!”, “ Saudi women being treated as second-class citizens for they are being banned from driving”, “Saudi female Manal Al-Sharif arrested for driving by the conservative Saudi government”….. These are the results that flashed through my computer screen when I punched “Saudi Women Driving” or “Women Driving in Saudi”.

Since recently, (some) women are allowed to drive, but I actually wanted to know the whole truth behind the issue of Saudi women and driving and see for myself what the hue and cry is all about!!!

Honestly speaking I know many Saudi females who do drive their cars uninterrupted in Saudi; but they are being subjected to drive only in restricted compound type zones. But do you think it’s just, I mean come on, driving is no more a hobby but a necessity, especially in these days of disappearing Saudi journalists…

Moreover, the problem is just piling up with the increasing growth of professional Saudi females. There is an emergence of females’ participation in various professional sectors like banks, academics, medical, IT and so forth.

No longer are the beautiful Saudi females considered as the dainty decked up dolls with only family and home in their agenda but now they are establishing themselves in the professional sectors and are doing really good there.

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All across the world, girls and women are still much more likely to never get into a classroom than men and boys despite all efforts and the tremendous progress that was made over the past few decades. Gender inequality in education is still a key issue so let’s take a closer look.

To support countries in their efforts to fulfill and live up to their promise that by 2030 they will have closed the gender gap, the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) is disaggregating all sex-related indicators to the highest possible extent.

The UIS is additionally producing indices for gender parity and is in the process of developing new indicators for enhanced reflecting, inclusion, and equity of boys and girls.

The UIS, for example, collects data on a regular basis regarding the percentage of sub-Saharan African schools that have only single-sex toilets and how many female teachers are employed in primary or secondary education schools across the globe.

The Institute offers information about how GED Diploma opportunities work, especially with contemporary online study options like the Onsego course, and are additionally tracking males and females in post-secondary education by study direction, especially in technology, science, mathematics, and engineering.

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