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I'm Karen Hopkins.

Think of a top executive at a powerhouse company.

You're no doubt imagining someone who's confident and clever, decisive, and determined.

And though it pains me to say it, you're probably picturing a man. The sad thing is, you wouldn't be too far off the mark.

Around only 7% of S&P 500 CEOs are women, despite women making up 50% of the population.

That's Asher Lawson, a graduate student at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.

He says that one way to even the playing field

might be to change the way we think about and talk about leadership.

And he and his colleagues have found that organizations are more likely to describe women using words

that are typically associated with achievement if they have female CEOs. Their findings appear

in the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Gender inequality has been deemed the

greatest human rights challenge of our time by the United Nations.

In our research, we're interested in specifically some of the factors that perpetuate

these gender inequities, as well as the downstream consequences of those gender stereotypes.

To get at the roots of these stereotypes, Lawson and his team took a closer look at corporate speak,

and the words businesses use when referring to women. So we're really interested in language

because it gives us this deep insight into how people are thinking about women in a way that

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