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What is Gender?
Emma Watson advocates for viewing gender as a spectrum rather than a binary, a perspective supported by Judith Butler’s theory, which emphasizes the fluidity of gender identity shaped by societal norms, cultural influences, and historical contexts.
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What is Gender Theory?
This video lesson examines how cultural gender norms shape identity, questioning whether a girl who prefers dinosaurs or a boy who likes pink can still embrace their gender, as philosopher Judith Butler argues that gender identity transcends biological sex.
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African-American Women and The C-Suite
African American women have historically embraced leadership roles in their communities, balancing careers and motherhood without seeing conflict, yet they face greater challenges and isolation in the workplace compared to their white counterparts, often lacking the necessary support and sponsorship for advancement.
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Rethink Performance Evaluations
As companies increasingly rely on data-driven performance evaluations, they risk entrenching cognitive biases that distort assessments, highlighting the need for ongoing bias training to ensure fair evaluations and avoid homogenizing their workforce.
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Working Together as Allies
Men can become better allies in their organizations by understanding that women’s empowerment is not a competition, committing to gender equality, actively listening to women, and embracing the opportunity to create meaningful social change.
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A Guide for HR Professionals
In a video lesson, Michael Kaufman emphasizes that HR departments need support from all business leaders to effectively drive gender equality and change, highlighting the importance of leadership involvement, measuring workplace metrics, and fostering a supportive environment for parental leave.
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Reexamining Gendered Behaviors
In this video lesson, Michael Kaufman discusses the restrictive gender norms that dictate behaviors for boys and girls, highlighting their limitations and advocating for a reevaluation of these expectations to foster more equitable parenting and professional opportunities.
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Rethinking Masculinity
In this expert class, Kaufman explores how gendered expectations, such as boys not crying and girls playing with dolls, persist into adulthood and offers strategies for advocating for gender equality by reevaluating these societal norms.
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Broaden Your Recruitment Efforts
To create a more inclusive work environment, organizations should prioritize hiring for “culture add” by diversifying their candidate pool, rethinking job listings to attract underrepresented demographics, and ensuring at least 50% of candidates are non-male and non-white.
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Deliver Unbiased Feedback
In this video lesson, inclusion specialist Ruchika Malhotra emphasizes the importance of delivering clear, actionable feedback to women of color by using the Situation-Behavior-Impact (SBI) framework to focus on substance rather than vague comments about style.
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Design Inclusive Meetings in Practice
Inclusion specialist Ruchika Malhotra emphasizes the importance of fostering inclusivity in meetings by implementing strategies like a “no interruptions” rule and amplifying others’ ideas to ensure that all voices are heard and credited appropriately.
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Design Inclusive Meetings in Theory
Ruchika Malhotra emphasizes that meetings should be redesigned to foster inclusivity, ensuring equal opportunities for all participants to share and receive credit for their ideas, thereby enhancing innovation and reducing marginalization.
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Create Equal Opportunities
In this video lesson, inclusion strategist Ruchika Malhotra highlights the unfair distribution of “office housework,” which disproportionately burdens women and people of color, and offers strategies for ensuring a fairer division of tasks to support career advancement.
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Recognize and Address Unconscious Biases
Code-switching, a natural behavior adjustment based on context, becomes unhealthy when it requires suppressing one’s identity to avoid discrimination, as explored by inclusion strategist Ruchika Malhotra, who highlights its psychological toll and suggests methods to identify unconscious biases.
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Key Concepts for Understanding the Experiences of Marginalized Groups
In this video lesson, inclusion strategist Ruchika Malhotra explores how intersecting marginalized identities can compound workplace challenges, emphasizing the need for inclusive cultures to support women of color, who often face both hypervisibility and invisibility, and are frequently underestimated in their career progression.
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How to Put an End to Imposter Syndrome
In a video lesson, inclusion strategist Ruchika Malhotra discusses how workplace messages contribute to imposter syndrome in women, particularly women of color, and offers strategies to foster a more inclusive and equitable environment.