Absolutely.
Our study started because so many working white-collar professional South Asian women found they were not getting promoted or were being held back in certain positions, being asked to do all the work but not getting the title or salary related to it. That is one of the most consistent stories we hear.
I'll also share that my personal experience as well has been, “Great, you can do the work. You're great, Jaspreet. Take on this portfolio.” When I ask about the title or the salary that goes along with that, quite frankly, it's “Oh, we'll talk about the title later.”
That's what started our interest in digging a bit further, and as you mentioned, the pandemic has just exacerbated it. Organizations have had to make hard decisions about layoffs, but in that layoff, has there been maybe an unconscious bias as part of it? Has there been something structural as part of it? That's why we need to partner with those companies to have their commitment, and those companies so far have been very willing and very open to saying they will support the study and they will figure it out and commit to change within their organization as well.