Radio Replay: Playing The Gender Card

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🗓️ 1 March 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Annie Duke was about to win $2 million. It was 2004, and she was at the final hand of the World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions. But as a woman at a table full of men, she wasn't sure she deserved to be there. In this week's Radio Replay, we tell the stories of two people who grappled with gender stereotypes on the job. Annie Duke shares her experiencing at the World Series of Poker, and then we hear the story of Robert Vaughan, a former Navy sailor who decided to pursue a new career as a nurse.

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0:00.0	This is Hidden Brain, I'm Shankar Vedanta.
0:02.8	We begin today in Las Vegas, the year 2004, the scene, a high stakes poker game.
0:11.2	Our protagonist is a woman named Annie Duke. She's about to win $2 million.
0:21.6	I'm all in. And with that top-air fill, Helmut's going all in with his 450,000 chips,
0:27.5	Annie Duke put the pressure on Phil when she checked raised him.
0:30.8	This was the final hand of the World Series of Poker, tournament of champions.
0:35.7	They had these incredible Hall of Fame players like Doral Brunson, who was a Hall of Famer,
0:40.3	Johnny Chan, who was a Hall of Famer, and then Phil Helmut, who has the most
0:44.1	championships of anyone in the history of the World Series of Poker. And then there was me.
0:50.1	Annie calls the all in and Phil sees what he's up against.
0:54.7	Annie and this guy Phil were the last two at the table.
0:57.9	And Annie has overcome with emotion seeing how close she is to winning this championship.
1:02.4	Annie's crying, Phil standing up, pacing back and forth,
1:06.1	the dealers laying out the cards that will determine who wins.
1:09.9	Annie has control of this hand. Now here comes the turn. It's a seven. No help for Phil.
1:14.6	Annie was the only woman in this competition. She had knocked out eight guys,
1:19.4	eight of the best players in the world to get to this point.
1:22.8	Annie Duke is now one card away from two million dollars.
1:29.8	But I didn't really feel like I deserve to be at that table.
1:38.5	At that moment, Annie Duke was feeling the pressure of something that psychologists call
1:43.6	stereotype threat. Here's how it works. Let's say you think people have a certain stereotype
1:48.8	about you. There's a part of you that's afraid that your actions and behavior
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