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WEBINAR AND DIVERSITY IN HEALTH RESEARCH

Thursday, February 13, 12:00 – 1:00 pm (NST)

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Any issues? Technical Support in St. John’s, NL: 709-864-8700 or go to https://www.citl.mun.ca/support/ GENDER BIAS AND DIVERSITY IN HEALTH RESEARCH Karen Dickson, PhD DIVERSITY TRAINING

Understand Understand Learn to bias impact take action CONTEMPORARY

automatic, well-learned activation of Explicit unintentional, associations, associations effortless, , 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 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 • 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  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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