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WEBINAR GENDER BIAS AND DIVERSITY IN HEALTH RESEARCH
Thursday, February 13, 12:00 – 1:00 pm (NST)
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Understand Understand Learn to bias impact take action CONTEMPORARY PREJUDICE
automatic, well-learned activation of Explicit unintentional, associations, associations effortless, stereotypes, despite Prejudice unconscious evaluations intentions
personal controlled, beliefs what we Implicit intentional, about endorse as effortful, social true conscious groups Prejudice IMPLICIT PREJUDICE IMPLICIT ASSOCIATION TEST HTTPS://IMPLICIT.HARVARD.EDU/IMPLICIT/CANADA/ CONTEMPORARY PREJUDICE CONTEMPORARY PREJUDICE
Aversive Racism Ambivalent, conflicted feelings toward minorities • Positive explicit racial attitudes but negative implicit attitudes
Will not be discriminatory when actions would clearly reflect prejudice • Only discriminate when circumstances provide a non-prejudiced excuse for behaviour AVERSIVE SEXISM AMBIVALENT SEXISM
Hostile sexism
• Sexist antipathy toward women based on stereotypes
Benevolent sexism
• Attitudes toward women that are subjectively positive but are also patronizing AMBIVALENT SEXISM
Hostile and benevolent sexism correlate with each other
• But imply opposite evaluations of women
Benevolent sexism is a crucial complement to hostile sexism
• Serves to pacify women’s resistance to societal gender inequality
GENDER STEREOTYPES
Male Instrumentality
Female Expressiveness GENDER BIAS
Gender bias
• Men and masculine traits are valued over women and feminine traits
Androcentrism
• Men are the standard
Women’s differences from men are viewed as deficiencies RECOGNIZING SEXISM
Gender stereotypes are prescriptive
• Women should conform to stereotypes
Gender stereotypes are perceived as true
• Inequalities between gender are legitimate
Weaker social norms against sexism
• Sexist hate speech less offensive • Discrimination against women less prejudicial GENDER BIAS IN RESEARCH DRUG RESEARCH DRUG RESEARCH DRUG RESEARCH GENDER BIAS IN RESEARCH CARDIAC RESEARCH STROKE RESEARCH SOLUTIONS
Is diversity/bias training effective? Implicit bias training Raise awareness of biases Teach techniques to reduce biases Mandatory vs. voluntary Develop procedures to eliminate the opportunity for bias SOLUTIONS SOLUTIONS Decision support
EducationEducation Data UPCOMING SESSIONS
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