Gender Bias in Project Management

Episode 4 of DrunkenPM focuses on the impact of Gender Bias in the Project Management space. This episode consists of two interviews. The first is with a group of women who work in Digital Project Management (Larissa Scordato, Tera Caldwell Simon and Patrice Colancecco Embry). The second interview features Agile Coach Natalie Warnert. Warning - there are a few expletives in this one... 

Show Notes:

Interview 1 : Gender Bias in Digital Project Management - with Patrice Colancecco Embry, Tera Caldwell Simon and Larissa Scordato

00:05 Intro

01:18 Women in Digital Project management Interview start and guest introductions

04:42 Meet the Dexters

05:25 Being a PM comes with challenges, does being a female PM carry additional challenges

9:38 Reaching out to your team for validation and support

12:08 Getting support may not fix the actual problem

13:50 How much does experience factor in

14:35 Does having a commanding presence only come with experience and how does gender impact your ability to take the room

16:46 Larissa is not sorry for interrupting

17:41 Letting your team take the floor

18:28 Note Taking

20:20 Generational gender bias

22:50 An apology is nice, a public apology is better

23:00 Advice for young women who are new to Project Management

24:05 Having difficult conversations and owning your role

24:40 The power of being knowledgable about your topic

26:00 The importance of assigning a notetaker

26:45 Getting a mentor

27:19 Know that you are good at what you do

27:35 How gender bias has an impact on your use of the phrase “I don’t know.”

29:30 When you get caught now knowing

30:09 Pretending to be brave enough / Imposter Syndrome

32:00 Taking care when you act “As if…”

33:30 “You’re either emotional, or your’e a bitch…”

35:20 Putting on the dominant female role and protecting your team

38:00 The “Sorry” thing

44:20 Advice for Men

46:10 Contacting Tera, Larissa and Patrice

46:40 Closing

All the participants in the above interview are "on the Twitter"

Larissa Scordato: https://twitter.com/larissascordato

Patrice Colancecco Embry : https://twitter.com/patrice108

Tera Caldwell Simon: https://twitter.com/tcaldsimon

Interview 2 - Gender Bias in Agile - with Natalie Warnert

47:07 Intro to the Interview with Agile Coach Natalie Warnert

47:50 Natalie’s involvement with Women in Agile

48:42 Women in Agile events are not just for women

49:27 Is it more difficult for a young woman to break into Agile

50:40 Behavior at a conferences

51:33 An example of differing standards

52:27 Gender bias, age bias and the Agile Coach

53:30 Women attendees at conferences

54:06 Advice for women entering the Agile space

55:35 Carrying yourself with confidence and owning it

56:00 Being more mindful of gender bias

57:31 What is an Aspiring Feminist?

60:10 Is the bias as significant in Agile as it is in waterfall?

61:20 Proving yourself

62:30 Support among women in Agile and at Agile conferences

65:00 Fighting over the slice of pie

65:39 Not tracking gender at conferences

66:00 Tracking down Natalie

Natalie can be reached via her website at http://nataliewarnert.com