Is your feedback equal?
Is your feedback equal?
Today is International Women’s Day, so let’s look at what’s going in the wonderful world of Feedback Fitness. How are we shaping up?
What the research says:
"You're too aggressive"
Stanford University researcher, Katherine Hilton, found that women in the workplace are offered the feedback they are ‘too aggressive’ three times more than men. The research found that if the word aggressive was used for men, it was used to tell them to be more aggressive.
Women receive feedback that is less actionable than feedback offered to men.
‘Our research shows that even if it is positive, feedback provided to women tends to be less actionable and less useful for leadership progression than feedback given to men, making it less likely that women will advance to more senior positions’.
Elena Doldor, Madeleine Wyatt and Jo Silvester. Feb 2021.
Sue’s findings:
Based on my own recent research of 103 participants here in Australia, (thank you if you participated!)
Offering Feedback
Of the three different types of feedback, both women and men felt most confident offering Acknowledgment Feedback (this is what you are doing well) with women rating themselves as more confident than men. In contrast, men felt more confident than women when offering Evaluation Feedback (this is how you are going) and Guidance Feedback (this is how you can do better).
