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Mason Donovan

Mason Donovan

Fractional Chief Culture Officer and author of "The Parenthood Advantage," focusing on workplace policies and corporate culture transformation.

Jul 6, 2026

136:57
I'm sure Mason would add, but I think it's a lot of stuff.
136:59
Yeah, when we start...
137:02
Beyond the interviews of individuals, we did over 200 interviews for the book.
137:06
We did a deep data dive, and we found there's so much research out there that's coming out that have shown that parents are, after they become parents, they specifically looked a lot at women.
137:16
Women are better multitaskers, better at prioritizing, more efficient.
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But then we got stories from everybody we interviewed.
137:25
And one of the questions we always ask is, did parents becoming a parent make you a better employee or worse or the same and resoundingly a hundred percent everybody said it made him a better boy and then we asked how why how did it make it and we got these stories that that they came out you know what like mark says i'm a type a personality it's sort of like we have things we put them in boxes we have this is a structure and this is how we we go forward and which meant that I had far less empathy and sort of the people management skills or more sort of a type A, you know, A to B, C.

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And how would you advise companies to avoid that bias?

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