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Why Representation Matters
The link between visibility in leadership and public trust.
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SUMMARY - Why Representation Matters

A young girl watches a movie featuring a superhero who looks like her for the first time, the character's hair and skin and features mirroring her own in ways that no previous hero had done, and something shifts in her imagination about what she might become, the visibility of someone who resembles her in a position of power and capability communicating something that no explicit message could have conveyed, the absence she had not consciously noticed until it was filled revealing how much she had been missing in stories that never included her.

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