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Robin Hauser: Unpacking the Brain Science Behind Bias
Category: Business
Duration: 00:33:03
Publish Date: 2018-05-02 22:30:27
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Robin Hauser is an award-winning filmmaker and social entrepreneur. In her latest film, Bias, Robin examines how inherent biases influence everything from corporate culture and decision making to software and artificial intelligence. Today we explore this idea even further, and unpack the brain science behind it all. We also learn more about Robin’s previous documentary, Code: Debugging The Gender Gap, and investigate why there aren’t more women pursuing computer sciences and software engineering.

Topics include:

  • How biases influence our everyday decisions (and why we don’t even realize it)
  • What bias looks like in the modern world
  • The impact of lack of diversity in software development and algorithms
  • The mommy penalty: how having children affects women’s careers today
  • Implicit bias towards mothers in the workplace (and how to stop it)
  • Why Millennials are more open to non-stereotypical gender roles
  • Mandatory paternity leave in countries like Sweden, Finland, and Estonia

Robin Hauser is the director and producer of cause-based documentary films at Finish Line Features, LLC. As both a business woman and a longtime professional photographer, Robin brings her creative eye and leadership skills to her documentary film projects. Her years in fine art photography give her a keen vision for the artistic design of her films, and her experience in the business world affords her a unique perspective on what it takes to motivate an audience. Her most recent film, CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap, premiered at Tribeca Film Festival 2015, and has caught the attention of the international tech industry and of policy makers in Washington, D.C. and abroad.

Previously, Robin co-directed and produced the documentary feature, Running For Jim, which won 14 awards at 20 film festivals. She has spoken about the importance of increased diversity in computer programming and women’s rights at the Mobile World Congress, SXSW Interactive Conference, InspireFest, AT&T Foundry FutureCast, and Dell Women Entrepreneur Network. Robin has been featured in national publications such as USA Today, Wired, Forbes, Fortune, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Fast Company, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Marie Claire, and San Francisco Business Times.

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