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Equity expert Sara Sanford offers a certified playbook that helps companies go beyond good intentions, using a data-driven standard to actively counter unconscious bias and foster gender equity — by changing how workplaces operate, not just how people think.
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There is no workplace as of now..
LUL
Oof
“Anytime someone calls attention to the breaking of gender roles, it ultimately undermines the concept of gender equality by implying that this is an exception and not the status quo.” – Knuckles, Sonic Boom
Knuckles also coincidentally talked over a girl in his rant and the whole thing was constructed on a false premise that we already live in a perfectly equal world.
On average, women make 79 cents to men making every dollar. Equity is an exception by the numbers.
Kathy Brown that is a Lie.
Just automate all the jobs.
But only use female robots, to raise female representation.
lol teaching? a huge part is teaching how to interact with people. leave that to robots and social media and RIP planet Earth
RantKid I’m pretty sure it was a joke BUD
“Equity expert”
This tells you everything.
Crazy to think this isn’t even TEDex
Only this missing things like “Crypto currency trader,entrepreneur,looking for opportunities, ceo of…”
We should automatically hang all these people who promote an ideology that has killed millions of people!
I just clicked to see the dislikes
How many times do we have to tell you old man??!!
old white man
I’d like to see a TED talk offering counterpoints to this presentation. Not likely to happen. These talks are compromised.
Same with these comments and dislikes whenever these topics come up lol. Compromised and people get upset.
@MehGamer
The comments are actually the opposite. People on both sides of the argument are free to express their view and post counterpoint.
@Titus Orelius but it turns into people just fighting and not being open minded. Its the exact same deal. All thede videos get downvoted the moment they read the title and most people don’t even watch the video. This is entertainment for me because I haven’t been proven wrong on similar videos like this (and yes some are bad, but not all), yet. I simply look at the like/dislike ratio based on tbe title, read the hate comments, and carry on with my day.
@MehGamer for me, it was her assuming the guy she was talking about had a bias towards men. She took one situation and ran with it.
It’s like “I always raise my hand but the teacher never calls on me, the teacher must not like me”. You have no idea what the teacher is thinking, but it’s easier to chalk it up to a problem with them. Maybe the guy didnt notice her, and she is acting like it’s a big deal. My ex would always say “this person gave me a funny look” always thinking people had a problem with her. Turns out they didn’t and it was all in her head. I feel like its sometimes a similar situation with some girls
Not all ideas are worth spreading
But muh marketplace of ideas!
It appears anyone with a pulse can give a TED talk
Making a conscious decision not to evaluate employees based on their personalities seems like a good start.
Impossible. Bias is always there.
That’s next to impossible for this new generation
I wouldn’t want to work with an arrogant inconsiderate colleague. Male or female, personality and work atmosphere is important.
Also, showing that the majority of females have complaints about personalities does not automatically mean that there is a bias against women. This line of reasoning is similar to saying research found that smokers have a higher percentage of cancer, therefore cancer clearly has a subconscious bias against smokers.
Hiring someone for diversity points instead of real qualifications is a pretty good way to ruin your business
Not what this talk was about. The solutions section is really interesting, you should actually watch it.
Yeah man, she actually said we should stay away from vanity metrics.
You don’t have to. Plenty of diverse people have outstanding qualifications.
AJ Moore do you want freedom of choice bc when given the freedom of choice women tend to stay out of a lot of these fields bc on average women are more interested in people and me are more interested in things that’s why you see more female nurses than male and why you see more male scientist and engineers than women…. it’s not that women cannot so those jobs but on average most aren’t interested in doing those jobs and those are highly competitive jobs, you literally want people who are passionate about those things in those positions.
It’s happening everywhere.
I work for a tech giant, and as virtually all companies, we are pushing for female leaders, promotions, salary raises, and they are all paid by the sweat and blood of their male colleagues.
I know multiple people (including myself) who raised their voices against the ACTUAL SEXISM of pushing women over competent people. We’ve been reported to HR and our managers for being sexist, and we don’t even have a right to face our accusers and know what we are accused of exactly.
Competent people are reducing their own productivity if they don’t feel appreciated, and eventually leave. A company that adopts the affirmative action / SJW culture has entered its last phase of life.
Nice anecdote at the start. Ofcourse we have to take your word for it since neither men are here to defend themselves. Goodluck proving any of these examples of bias are true, since many so called strong wamen are too afraid to even confront the people that are putting them into this social faux pas. Also hire employees according to their skills, education or a good job interview not ‘because she is a wamen’ or ‘we need moar diversity’ or ‘he is a white male so he must be gut’. Gtfo. At 12:00 she even states ‘based on the data that matters’, sounds a little biased don’t you think? It’s almost like she started at a drawn conclusion and then followed the evidence to support her claims. Very scientific, would definitely hire 10/10.
Way to go proving her point and demonstrating you’re flat out refusing to accept factual data because it goes against your bias.
@Sothis Might be allot easier to do so if the description would give us the studies she recited. You know, hand us your sources so we can read futher into the subject. Also which factual data am I refusing to acknowledge?
Did it ever cross your mind that maybe your proposal simply wasn’t good enough?
nope…. like most people in this day and age. shes a women so she cant be wrong.
I’m a guy and I have never gotten access to a mentor. I also am “tolerated” and generally ignored. I always have to work so hard to get noticed and advance. My gf makes more money than me even though I do ok. I do work in healthcare. I don’t think this talk is capturing the truth about what’s going on. Something is kind of off. I dunno, it’s probably just a specific subculture off people that are problematic. I bet the problems are more insidious than anti-women sentiments
The truth is that this is not a gender issue but feminist keep saying it is when scholars and science points to the fact that is an issue of how power itself work.
The point is that you can’t achieve a perfect balance like they want. It is an equilibrium and complex dynamics are involved.
Furthermore they keep presenting this image of the typical unlikeable corporate man as the stereotype for all man which is instead a byproduct of capitalism.
Leadership in capitalism is not true leadership but they deny that because they just see and just want an opportunity to bite into that pie so they can’t tear that down.
They think that leadership in corporation is based on logic when it is not like that and they deny it works like that for men too and as soon they see man vs woman they blame it on “the patriarchy”. They also deny differences between the two sexes and they believe to be the only ones able to see truth as all men are “unconciously biased” now apparently.
Also they deny women have other social advantages to compensate that men simply don’t have.
In a few words (modern) feminism is intellectually an incoherent mess and I have really tried to understand it but all I can see when I see a feminist is just someone whining because she could not get what she wanted while believing the world is just for everyone else but her. Feminism then is her ticket to gain something, obviously by blaming the first thing she see in her way.
We also need to put into consideration how all of this for all genders is a societal issue deeply ingrained into all of us and how we should work from the ground up to fix it instead of being biased for any side. The point in this video I think is just highlighting a specific aspect of gender inequality and since woman were a social minority and were discriminated against for so long I do think they get a bit more of a say then men overall. This isnt to undermine any rights issues for the other genders though
Your example is an anecdote, it does not negate systemic issues that are well observable in academic studies.
@Sothis Those ‘academic studies’ do not seems very reliable to me either as they seem to be based on self reporting for what I could hear. Funny thing is that to me modern feminism just looks like a faulty and expedient generalisation.
Yeah, corporations: the place where no man has ever been hurt.
Seems like that you are more interested in a ticket into leadership than just gender relationships. But who knows, I may be “unconciously biased”.
Or maybe you are just entering corporations and starting to understand how they actually work and believe that what you are put through “gender bias” when instead is a screening for malleability.
@Sothis
Academic studies show that there is no systemic issue of gender inequality.
The woman in the video is however entirely anecdotal
Just learn how to be normal again.
Go away with your man made genders.
That is bias. It shouldn’t matter..
next years ted topic – CAN MEN LEARN? excellent listen, too bad it coasted over commenters heads
or… just get rid of the gender box since it’s irrelevant?
The timing lmao
1:15, seems like Howard is a jerk. What do I have to do with it?
Asking yourself if you have been enough diplomatic or not is just correct human behavior not imprinted self doubt.
Just don’t look for good ethics in capitalism. Not the right place.
Wiffo as usual, gender equality advocates resort to anecdotal evidence instead of proper research and hard data.
Is there any empirical evidence to this “subconscious gender bias” everyone is talking about. Did anyone conduct experiments to prove it? I don’t say it is not there, I just say how come it is repeatedly mentioned as THE problem but I never heard of anyone trying to prove it is there.
The statistics these gender equality warriors always like to show is percentages of females working in IT. Well, I teach IT and I have been to recruiting events where I talked to school kids choosing a field to study. You won’t believe how not into IT girls are. No matter what I tried, they just won’t even consider it. Not to mention the girls that glance at the banner, see IT, and literally do a 180 and walk away.
There are also many other fields which are more dominated by females, and I never heard men complain about it.
2:02 That is simply her man-hating, feminist interpretation of the moment.