The term unconscious bias is often used to make people feel less responsible for their prejudice rather than addressing the actual discriminatory behavior.

“if we pretend most of it is unconscious, the overall effect is to make us less interested in the bias, less concerned about it, and less likely to do anything about it.”

Women often internalize the unconscious bias held by society, leading them to feel the need to work harder to validate their positions.

“there is a unconscious bias that not only other people have but we have on oursel and I don't know if yours later anybody was looking at me anything differently because I did marry somebody when I was in business school from business school but I looked at myself a little bit differently”