Women's ERG
Anyone
Who can join the Women's ERG?
At work, the letters ERG stand for this type of employee-led group built around a shared identity or experience.
What is an Employee Resource Group?
Speaking, writing, or acting in support of a person, group, or cause to protect their rights, amplify their voice, or create systemic change.
What is Advocacy?
This heritage month is observed every November in the U.S., honoring the histories, cultures, and contributions of the first peoples of this land.
What is Native American Heritage Month?
According to the CDC, about this fraction of U.S. adults lives with some type of disability.
What is 1 in 4?
The Personal Librarian
What is the book that the Women's ERG read this summer?
Diversity expert Verna Myers is known for saying that diversity is being invited to the party, and inclusion is being asked to do this.
What is dance?
Advocacy carried out by specifically using one's privilege or position to support and uplift people from marginalized communities.
What is Allyship?
Hispanic Heritage Month begins on this date in mid-September, the independence anniversary of several Central American countries.
What is September 15?
This term describes everyone having a fair and just opportunity to reach their full health potential, which often means giving people different resources rather than identical ones.
What is health equity?
Lindsay Warren
Who do you contact if you have questions about the Women's ERG?
Coined by legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989, this term describes how overlapping identities, such as race and gender, can shape a person’s experiences.
What is intersectionality?
A Donation Drive for banned/challenged books, a Book Club about The Perks of Being a Wallflower, a Social/Book Swap event featuring banned/challenged books, and an Awareness Campaign providing interesting facts about banned/challenged books.
What did the Advocacy ERG do to celebrate Banned Books Week 2026?
Pride Month in June commemorates the 1969 uprising at this New York City bar, a turning point in the LGBTQ+ rights movement.
What is the Stonewall Inn?
Saying “a person with a disability” rather than “a disabled person” is an example of this type of language, which puts the person before the condition.
What is person-first language?
2 Years
How long has the Women's ERG been in existence?
Harvard professor Amy Edmondson popularized this term for a team climate where people feel able to speak up, ask questions, and admit mistakes without fear of embarrassment or punishment.
What is psychological safety?
Each month, Advocacy ERG members volunteer at this food pantry, assembling food packages for dialysis patients and their families.
What is St. Vincent de Paul?
AAPI Heritage Month is observed in May partly to mark the 1869 completion of this railroad project, built largely by Chinese laborers.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
This term, coined in the 1990s by sociologist Judy Singer, describes natural variation in how human brains work, including autism, ADHD, and dyslexia.
What is neurodiversity?
Marie Curie
Who was the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in science?
Unlike a “safe space,” this type of space acknowledges that honest conversations about difference can be uncomfortable, and invites people to take part with openness and positive intent.
What is a brave space?
Lending a hand with AAPI ERG’s Lunar New Year celebration, MegaPride ERG’s Pride Month event, and LatinX & Indigenous ERG’s Hispanic Heritage Month’s Colombian Heritage celebration.
How has the Advocacy ERG supported other groups at Promega?
This San Francisco artist designed the original rainbow Pride flag, first flown in 1978.
Who is Gilbert Baker?
This 1990 federal law prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in employment, public services, and accommodations.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?