6 women on how they deal with sexism and discrimination at work
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Implicit bias is alive and well in the workplace. These women faced it, and in some cases changed it for the women who came after them.
When Kay Koplovitz, the founder, chairman, and CEO of the USA Network, was invited to a media lunch for the Augusta National Golf Tournament in 1982, she ran into a bit of a snag. Women weren’t allowed into the dining room on the second floor of the club.”I was talking to Hord Hardin, [then] chairman of the Masters Tournament and the Augusta National Golf Club, and we got to the top of the stairs,” she says, “and he looks at me and says, ‘Kay, we got a problem.'”