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With the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, at her rural Balmoral home in September, Charles III instantly became King. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Women face a number of biases in the workplace, and these biases are particularly fierce in male-dominated industries and professions. Read Books About Women’s Experiences with Bias to Break the Bias We curated 20 books to help you better understand bias by reading about women’s experiences with explicit and implicit bias, the intersectionality between gender and race, mothers against the backdrop of the motherhood penalty, and how gender bias impacts men. If we open up our minds to the possibility of unconscious bias and then look for bias in our own lives, we can start breaking the bias by changing our behavior. At the Parity Podcast, we continuously read books to better understand gender bias and discover new ways to break the bias. If you have unconscious bias - and you will - then learn more about the types of biases you have so that you can begin to disrupt your bias. One assessment tool is the Harvard Implicit Bias Test which is free, online, and will take you about 20 minutes for each assessment. ![]() The first step to break the bias is to assess our own unconscious bias. The 2022 International Women's Day theme urges us to take active steps to break the bias. ![]() ![]() ![]() Uncanny Valley is a coming of age story set against the backdrop of our generation’s very own gold rush. ![]() Slowly, she began to realise that her blind faith in ambitious, arrogant young men from America’s soft suburbs wasn’t just her own personal pathology. And soon, like everyone else, she was addicted to the internet, refreshing the news, refreshing social media, scrolling and scrolling and scrolling. ![]() Sexual harassment cases were proliferating. 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Matt Ridley argues that the emerging truth is far more interesting than this myth. ![]() This startling revision led some scientists to conclude that there are simply not enough human genes to account for all the different ways people behave: we must be made by nurture, not nature. In February 2001 it was announced that the genome contains not 100,000 genes as originally expected but only 30,000. ![]() ![]() Armed with the extraordinary new discoveries about our genes, Ridley turns his attention to the nature versus nurture debate to bring the first popular account of the roots of human behaviour. Acclaimed author Matt Ridley's thrilling follow-up to his bestseller Genome. ![]() ![]() ![]() For readers of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel and Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens, The Year 1000 is an intellectually daring, provocative account that will make you rethink everything you thought you knew about how the modern world came to be. These encounters, she shows, made it possible for Christopher Columbus to reach the Americas in 1492, and set the stage for the process of globalization that so dominates the modern era. As people on at least five continents ventured outward, they spread technology, new crops, and religion. Drawing on nearly thirty years of research on medieval China and global history, she presents a compelling account of first encounters between disparate societies. But how, then, to explain the presence of blonde-haired people in Mayan temple murals in Chichen Itza, Mexico? Could it be possible that the Vikings had found their way to the Americas during the height of the Mayan empire? Valerie Hansen, a much-honored historian, argues that the year 1000 was the world's first point of major cultural exchange and exploration. ![]() It was long assumed that the centuries immediately prior to AD 1000 were lacking in any major cultural developments or geopolitical encounters, that the Europeans hadn't yet discovered North America, that the farthest anyone had traveled over sea was the Vikings' invasion of Britain. ![]() About the Book "In history, myth often abides. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In an eye-opening and thoroughly engaging read, Bailey offers a treasure trove of insights and over 25 best practices that will help you accomplish more.Ĭhris Bailey, a graduate of Carleton University in Ottawa, wrote over 216,000 words on the subject of productivity on his blog,, during a year long productivity project where he conducted intensive research, as well as dozens of productivity experiments on himself to discover how to become as productive as possible. ![]() " The Productivity Project: Accomplishing More by Managing Your Time, Attention, and Energy" by Chris Bailey is a result of a year-long series of productivity experiments Bailey conducted on himself. He also continued research and interviews with some of the world’s foremost experts, from Charles Duhigg to David Allen.Īmong the experiments that he tackled: Bailey went several weeks with getting by on little to no sleep he cut out caffeine and sugar he lived in total isolation for 10 days he used his smartphone for just an hour a day for three months he gained ten pounds of muscle mass he stretched his work week to 90 hours a late riser, he got up at 5:30 every morning for three months-all the while monitoring the impact of his experiments on the quality and quantity of his work. ![]() |