Episode 194: How to Confront Bias
/In this episode my guests Aneeta Rattan and Raina Brands share ideas about how to call out bias so it can’t sit there in the background, subtly undermining our progress. This is counter to a lot of advice about women and work, which is essentially that we should work within the system itself to make work work for us.
Confronting bias can seem intimidating to many women. It means awkwardness, and making people (including us) feel uncomfortable.
But as you heard if you listened to the last show with Raina, causing discomfort is no reason not to call out unfairness when we see it. And Aneeta describes how she treads the fine line between making others uncomfortable, versus continuing to exist in a biased system.
Raina and Aneeta are both professors who run the site Career Equally. This show is full of ideas on how to de-bias your career.
I’d love to know if any of you have tried their tactics in your own workplace, and if so, what was the response?
You can also read a transcript of the show.