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FOCUS FIGHTING UNCONSCIOUS BIASNESS Dr. Monica Verma Professor and Head-MBA, IMS Engineering College, Ghaziabad 34 “T ell me about your project.” “What have you done in your summer internship?” continue with her studies and pursue a job afterward. Refl exively, I gave her good marks. “Ma’am, I have not done much. I worked in a start- up whose owner is my husband’s friend and I was just involved in documentation and fi le keeping,” was an honest reply from an elegant and a sincere looking female student. I was a little annoyed but then came a reply from her and her faculty how intelligent and sincere a student she was. But, after her marriage, she is struggling to convince her in-laws to let her A car abruptly came in front of our college bus. “It must be a woman driver behind the wheels,” was a comment from one of my fellow male colleagues in the bus. | Vol. 10 Issue 2 • FEBRUARY 2019, Delhi NCR We come across such kind of incidents or situations, a number of times during a day where consciously or unconsciously we either make biased