Check-In: What's giving you hope right now?
Big Ideas:
- What constitutes inequity?
- When your unbelonging can connect you with other people who feel unbelonging
- Gender equity issues not coming up in some leadership trainings
- Cultural and country differences in gender equity
- Calling out misogynistic jokes - Should I? Context dependent?
- "isms" as part of the air we breathe - it's conditioned into us
- Creating the system and benefitting from it - are they separate
- Unconscious bias that comes out in small ways as a parent
- Is awareness enough to change behavior?
- If we are all sexist, does that make the word meaningless?
- Sexists are actively causing harm...???
- Sexism is mostly unintentional - men don't even know it's sexist
- What do we call people who are functioning in patriarchy in unconscious ways, but still causing harm?
- The myth of meritocracy
- Meritocracy - achievement is based solely on your skills
- Blind assessments to even things out
- Performance review differences between men and women
- Transparent data and decisions on manager, causing inequities to even out
- Be internally transparent with income differences
- Women tend not to negotiate their salaries, but they will negotiate on the behalf of others
- Women less likely to nominate themselves for promotions
- Asking women to be like men doesn't work
- Double bind - not assertive enough, not seen as a leader, too assertive, seen as being bitchy
- Anger as a man is okay, being sad/emotional as a man is associated with weakness
- Expectations in our gender roles
- When there's no problem, there's no data usually
- Believing you are objective, makes you more likely to be sexist.
- Thinking of the behavior separate from the identity
Resources:
- Invisible Women by Caroline Criando Perez
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