From the course: Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging
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Equity and bias
From the course: Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging
Equity and bias
- A common signal within every organization about equity of opportunity, just look at your own promotion rates. Look at the representation. Just pick gender. Gender is usually the first step most companies go for, because they can measure it globally. Ethnicity and race you can't for various reasons. But gender, sure. And if you look at the feeder pool from beginning of the stack of employability, all the way up your food chain, look at the representation of women going up your organization. If there's disparate representation that was in the bottom to the top, one can assume there's bias, especially statistically different. Then, go look at that. And then, understand what is unconscious bias. Don't fear it, lean into it. And realize that speed is your enemy in every decision. And so if you pause, you have the right data set in front of you, and ask, just ask simple questions. Do you think there's bias…
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