S03E14 Is Theresa a Sexist Episode?

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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