It also suggests experimenting with post-qualification admissions; appointing a Commissioner for Student Mental Health; requiring targets for students from care; and delivering mandatory
unconscious bias training for staff.
Facing furor over racial profiling in the arrest of two black men at a Philadelphia Starbucks, the company announced it will be closing its stores on May 29 to
offer unconscious bias training.
To underpin commitment to increasing female and black heritage representation further, Kashif introduced
mandatory unconscious bias training to all his hiring managers — to counter a typical comment, «that student was bright, but they just wouldn't suit the culture here».
My top four resolutions are amplifying women's voices in meetings; calling out gender - biased practices and policies and pushing for redress (for example,
through unconscious bias training); acting as a mentor, sponsor, and champion for junior women who are navigating early stages of their academic faculty careers; and nominating women faculty members for awards and celebrating their accomplishments.
The strategy
included unconscious bias training for the hiring committee, a guide for recruiting diverse candidates, and connecting candidates with a faculty member outside of the search committee to answer their questions about the university's work - life balance.
«It's encouraging to see not just the numbers, but that there's real synergy in the solutions across tech companies, from education initiatives to
unconscious bias training,» says Meghan Casserly, a spokeswoman for Google.
And he promised to fix the problem, whether it required policy changes, additional store manager training, or
unconscious bias training.
Defra has already introduced «
unconscious bias training» for its managers in a bid to combat the problem.
Unconscious bias training is increasingly used by major corporations to help executives overcome the innate prejudices that mean they often overlook promising women and candidates from ethnic minority backgrounds.
Gender equality depends on a lot more than just reporting pay gap such as, discrimination, flexible working arrangements,
unconscious bias training, incentivisation of executives to achieve gender mix, management training from early on, maternity mentoring and coaching etc etc..
In 2016, all firm attorneys participated in mandatory,
unconscious bias training, focused on ways we can interrupt and move beyond the social and cultural biases that impact how we perceive and interact with people who are different from us.
Underlying all of this is the essential need for
unconscious bias training and priming your organization for cultural change.
Entrants submitted detailed information showing how they promote gender equality, and those chosen were able to show commitment to progressing women in the workplace, as well as demonstrating factors such as strong leadership accountability for change, target setting and
unconscious bias training.