WEBSTER DEFINITIONS
An over generalized mental shortcut about a group, often inaccurate or exaggerated.
What is a STEREOTYPE?
EXAMPLES:
Gender: men are better leaders>women better as support
Age: over 40 not good with tech>under 40 no experience
RE:DEFINE
Policeman
Fireman
Mailman
Mankind
Police Officer
Firefighter
Mail Carrier/Postal Worker
Humankind
A coworker jokes in the break room..."I saw that post of you and your partner, you two are so cute, but who is the guy and who's the girl in your relationship hahaha"?
INAPPROPRIATE: WHY= GENDER BIAS
What is an appropriate response?
PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES
What is the SURFACE?
Negative prejudice (feeling) or discriminatory behavior (action) against someone because of when they were born.
What is AGEISM?
EXAMPLE: making jokes about a coworker retiring when they have never said anything about it, insinuating someone doesn't know how to use technology because of their perceived age...
To provide someone with reactions, opinions, or suggestions about their performance, work, or ideas, with the aim of helping them understand what they are doing well and how they can improve or adjust to achieve better results.
What is FEEBACK?
A colleague is telling you a story about a store they went to over the weekend and say "I am never going back there, it was so ghetto".
INAPPROPRIATE
WHY=Historical context
Early Use: "Ghetto" was originally used in 16th-century Venice to describe the section of the city where Jewish people were forced to live.
Nazi Era: The term gained a darker significance during World War II when the Nazis used it to describe overcrowded holding places for Jews.
Post-WWII: particularly in the United States, it became associated with impoverished inner-city neighborhoods, primarily inhabited by racial and ethnic minorities, according to EBSCO. This usage reflects the realities of segregation and systemic racism that concentrated minority populations in disadvantaged areas, according to The Michigan Daily.
Modern interpretations
Negative Connotations: Many people today find the word offensive, especially when used to describe something or someone as "low-class," "inferior," or "unsophisticated". It's seen by some as a derogatory insult that perpetuates racist stereotypes about marginalized communities...
BELIEFS/VALUES
What is UNDER SURFACE?
MAYBE> why may this be blurred on the surface?
The differences in brain function and behaviors that are natural human variations, not deficits.
What is NEURODIVERGENCE? (Neurodiversity)
What is empathy
The ability to, w/out judgment, share or relate to someone else's feelings by connecting with similar feelings one may have had.
In a hiring process, an interviewer continued to unknowingly favor candidates who attended the same university as they did, noting feeling a connection with them.
What is INAPPROPRIATE?
WHY=AFFINITY BIAS Like Likes Like
EDUCATION
What is UNDER SURFACE?
MAYBE> Why may this be blurred?
Automatic and involuntary thoughts, judgments, and assessments made about people and situations, often based on life experiences etc.
What is UNCONCIOUS BIAS?
Another type: CONFORMITY BIAS:
An employee doesn't speak up with a different idea because everyone else in the meeting agrees, and they want to avoid conflict.
What is the best way for David to respond?
At a work Happy Hour trivia game David's coworker says:
"David, you're Asian, you take this math question."
1. "Uhm, that is such an old stereotype. I am not any better at math than you."
2. You are a jerk! Stop being so racist!
What else?
During an application review to prepare for interviews, a hiring manager sees a candidate's name and immediately says "do not include this one, I cannot pronounce the name".
So without looking at qualifications or experience, the candidate was excluded from consideration.
INAPPROPRIATE
WHY=ETHNICITY, NATIONAL ORIGIN, RACIAL BIAS
The hiring process can be a major place for discriminatory practices...
RACE
SURFACE
MAYBE> someone in a previous class fell into dominant race but also had a different race parent.
Negative feelings and thoughts against a particular person or group, based on their sex.
What is GENDER BIAS?
EXAMPLE: A male employee continues to interrupt and talk over his female colleagues during meetings, while giving more professional attention to his male colleagues.
Women are more likely to experience this due to traditional roles and societal stereotyping.
Pay gaps>Sex Harass>Promotions
What is inclusive language?
Gender neutral language that doesn't assign the readers sex. Use terms as "the employee" or "the applicant".
It is best practice for this to be in all work documents
Michael, who is gay, has been a construction worker for the organization for about 6 months, and his coworkers are calling him "Princess" and other derogatory names. But it's all in fun.
What is INAPPROPRIATE?
BONUS: How should Michael respond?
Michael doesn't HAVE to respond. He could file a complaint and let the investigation figure it out.
1. "I know you think you are funny, but I really don't like you calling me that. You can use my actual name, Michael. Thank you."
2. "My name is Michael, please use my name, thank you."
3. "Please stop calling me Princess (or any other derogatory name)"
Teasing like this should never happen, especially in the workplace.
RELIGION
What is UNDER SURFACE?
Unless there is external clothing or accessories....
Small, subtle, verbal or non verbal, unintentional or intentional words or behaviors with a negative impact on marginalized groups.
What is a MICROAGGRESSION?
EXAMPLE: An Asian-American person born in America may hear such questions: “No. Where are you really from?”
Someone from the LGBTQ* community may be considered overly sensitive if they ask someone not to say “That’s so gay!” anymore.
Name 2 City Trainings that support reducing bias.
1. Implicit Bias
2. AR 25
NEW>>>>Safe Spaces?
“Wow, you’ve lost so much weight and your acne is totally clearing up! You look great.”
INAPPROPRIATE
Making comments about people’s weight is damaging, not just to the person but also potentially anybody. Nobody needs to hear your opinions on their body.
May be intended as a compliment. The person hearing it, could feel as “You were unacceptably overweight before, and now you are acceptable.”
It’s a value judgement about someone’s worth as a person, based only on their appearance.
WESTSIDE
What is UNDER SURFACE?
Geographical location can be a source of bias...