Sentences with phrase «confront gender bias»

The toolkit offers questions and activities to help middle - and high school students begin to notice and confront gender bias.

In our interview with Andrea S. Kramer, co-author of Breaking Through Bias: Communication Techniques for Women to Succeed at Work and a longtime partner at McDermott Will & Emery LLP, we discuss various strategies for confronting gender bias while developing business.

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We must continue to foster an ecosystem where founders of any gender of startups and established companies alike can confront unconscious bias, develop the skills necessary to navigate and disarm the biases of others and become the role models necessary to dismantle systemic bias.

Only by confronting sexism and gender bias head - on will we be able to truly create a culture which respects everyone equally.

In outlining suggested strategies for reducing gender bias among teens, Making Caring Common recommends that parents and educators identify their own biases and strive to counteract them, encourage young people to spot stereotypes and proactively confront discrimination, avoid the tendency to just «let boys be boys,» and help girls build leadership skills and self - confidence.

While the three - day summit was a celebration of how far we have come as a nation, the continuing challenge is clear: men and women hold unconscious biases that stand in the way of gender equity in leadership — and we all have a role to play in confronting these biases.

Specifically, PSEL defines effectiveness in this area as ensuring that students have equitable access to effective teachers and supports, developing policies that fairly address student misconduct, and confronting biases and «low expectations associated with race, class, culture and language, gender and sexual orientation, and disability or special status,» among other tenets.

She has campaigned to stop jail expansion; confront police violence; reveal prosecutorial misconduct; bring visibility to women prisoners, political prisoners, and people confined to control units; interrupt gender discrimination and bias within prisons, policing, and sentencing; challenge the human rights abuses of prisoners, former prisoners and their family members, and experiment with decarceration models for shrinking the system.