Women say they experience less discrimination working remotely – can AI help combat in-person bias?
As organizations push for a return to the office, a new study from the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management reveals an uncomfortable truth: the workplace remains a site of persistent gender discrimination.
The research, which surveyed over 1,000 professional women in hybrid roles, found that incidents of gender bias occur significantly more often in person than in remote settings. This disparity raises an important question for employers: how can workplaces be structured to reduce gender discrimination without making remote work a necessary refuge for many women?
Laura Doering, co-author of the study and associate professor of strategic management at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, underscores the complexity of the issue.
“What I think we really didn't know before was just the tremendous disparity in the incidents of gender discrimination between these two locations. And now that we know this, we can better evaluate this trade-off for women between working remotely and working on site.”
The study revealed that when working on-site, 31% of women reported experiencing gender discrimination, compared to 17% while working remotely. For women who worked primarily with men, the gap was even wider: 58% faced discrimination in the office versus 26% remotely.
Younger women under age 30 were also more...
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