With the gender pay gap standing at 18.1% in the UK and more men called John running FTSE 100 companies than women altogether, sexism is very much alive and kicking in the workplace.
And it seems fathers of daughters are well aware of the biases their children may face in the future.
A new study from Harvard University researchers has found that - rather sweetly, and perhaps unconsciously - fathers of girls are working to redress the inequalities their girls may later confront at work, by hiring more women at board level.
Academics Paul Gompers and Sophie Wang looked at data from US-based venture capital firms between 1990 and 2016.
They found that organisations where senior partners had more daughters were more likely to be diverse in terms of gender representation.
"We find strong evidence that parenting more daughters leads to an increased propensity to hire female partners by venture capital firms," the researchers write.
As a consequence of hiring more women - surprise, surprise - those venture capitalist firms were more successful.
"Improved gender diversity, induced by parenting more daughters, improves deal and fund performances," the Harvard team say, in a paper published on the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg (pictured main photo, above) is currently expecting a second daughter with his wife Dr. Priscilla Chan.
He has been a prominent advocate of women taking up leadership positions in the workplace, and famously took two months of paternity leave to look after his baby girl, Max, in 2015.
The decision demonstrated how men can help shoulder the weight of parenthood often held fully by women.
Since it is women who often pay the price of taking time out from their careers, this move was significant.
As Wired noted, he was "perhaps the most prominent chief executive of a major public tech company to take this much time off following the birth of his child".
One of the world's most famous feminists, former US president Barack Obama (pictured above, with his daughters Sasha and Malia), has also campaigned for more women leaders and greater equality in the workplace.
"We should guarantee paid maternity leave and paid paternity leave, too. That’s how you value families," he said, at the White House’s first ever State of Women summit in June 2016.
"That’s how employers retain great workers. And it’s good for women — because when childcare falls disproportionately on mothers, as it often does, it makes it that much harder to advance in their careers."
Meanwhile, although our maternity leave laws are more forgiving compared to the States, Britain still falls behind in some areas when it comes to gender representation at work.
Only one in 10 decision makers at UK venture capital firms is female, according to a study published last month by Diversity VC, a non-profit organisation.
Overall, just 27 percent of employees at UK venture firms are women, compared with 45 percent in the States.
"The tech industry can be a powerful force for good. However, there’s not always equal access to the opportunities it presents," entrepreneur Martha Lane Fox told the Financial Times. "I hope this report is a call to action for the venture capital community to ensure that it is an industry accessible to all."
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