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What DEI is and why it matters
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| Diversity and Inclusion Efforts that Really Work (PDF) This article focuses on potential solutions instead of challenges to DEI efforts in organizations. While there is no one-size-fits-all solution, the article offers five evidence-based suggestions for actionable places to start in planning DEI work. (May 2020, HBR) |
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| Fostering a Culture of Inclusion for Employees (Video) | Needs keywords | ||||||
| We Are Not a Melting Pot (Video) (November 2018, ted.com) | Needs keywords | ||||||
| How Black Women Describe Navigating Race and Gender in the Workplace (PDF) The article focuses on a set of 10 interviews with black women in the corporate world and shares their experiences working there. It describes a pattern of low support, code switching, covering, and unfair criticism. (March 2018, HBR) |
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Glossary
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General Concepts
Unconscious Bias
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| The Standards We Choose (Video) This podcast episode describes the concept of casuistry (unsound but perceived as “clever” reasoning to get what you want), especially around hiring and professional promotion. It gives hypothetical and specific examples of this in practice, wherein people decide who they want (or certain biased standards) first, then backfill the qualifications to justify the decision. |
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| Verna Myers: How to overcome our biases? Walk boldly toward them (Video) The way to combat harmful biases is not to ignore them or pretend they don’t exist. Rather, the speaker suggests that we should acknowledge our biases, seek to understand them in ourselves, and lean into behaviors that will combat them. This specifically includes moving toward and getting to know people against whom we are biased, if we do so authentically and from a genuine place of wanting to be a positive force in others’ lives. |
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| The Enduring Grip of the Gender Pay Gap (PDF) The earnings difference between men and women is a well-known and documented fact in the US. This article by the Pew Research Center links data from research studies in order to describe and explain why women earn a lower wage than men in the same categories - focusing on education levels and parenthood - but also considering race, types of occupations, and trends in the labor market. It details historical changes from 1982 through 2022 and shows a slow-down in progress for the last 20 years. (March 2023, Pew Research Center) |
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| This article shares the results and process of a study which found that professors who believed intelligence was a static property in a student resulted in significantly lower grades for minority students than those who believed students could “grow” their intelligence. Many of the professors have tenure and weren’t choosing to give lower grades. (February 2019, Science) |
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Systemic Racism
Systemic Sexism
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