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Origins of Nepotism

By Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik - Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist These days, business families are including their daughters in the family businesses. Yet on careful observation, one notices that the son is given…

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Published August 12, 2021 · 3 min read
origins of nepotism

By Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik - Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist

These days, business families are including their daughters in the family businesses. Yet on careful observation, one notices that the son is given responsibility for “outside” jobs such as production and sales, the jobs that take you to the factory and the market. The daughter is usually put in charge of “inside” jobs such as marketing, finance and human resources, jobs that keep you in the office, on the desk. There is gender discrimination within diversity and inclusion even inside families.

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