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You're listening to Women at Work from Harvard Business Review.

I'm Amy Galo.

I'm Nicole Torres.

And I'm Amy Bernstein.

On our podcast, we talk a lot about gender bias

and how it affects women's experiences at work.

But what about people who don't present as the gender they were

assigned at birth or who dress and act more feminine some days and other days more

masculine? Research shows that people who don't conform to the gender binary struggle.

They are often treated poorly by their managers or HR and are even shut out of the workforce altogether.

And yet more and more people are expressing their authentic gender identity at work.

And by challenging the traditional norms, they are also challenging gender bias.

We draw on these boxes for stereotypes. And so if I know that I treat men one way

and I treat women another way,

how do I treat you who's non-binary?

How do I treat this person who's a gender

that I've never even heard of?

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