Episode 194: How to Confront Bias
The Broad Experience
The Broad Experience
5.0 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
In this episode my guests Raina Brands and Aneeta Rattan share ideas about how to call out bias so it can’t sit there in the background, subtly undermining our progress.
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. Aneeta describes how she treads the fine line of her own discomfort in speaking up, vs. 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.
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| 0:44.7 | Welcome to the broad experience, the show about women, the workplace and success. |
| 0:46.0 | I'm Ashley Milthight. |
| 0:53.2 | This time, we operate in a world of bias, some of us more than others. |
| 1:00.8 | Anita and I would say exactly the same thing, and everyone would be receptive and thankful for my contribution, and I would observe team members bristling at Anitha and also, |
| 1:06.9 | you know, to the point where it wasn't even subtle, visibly rolling their eyes. |
| 1:11.0 | But how do you confront that bias, if you confront it at all? |
| 1:15.9 | I ask myself, are my worries about how this person will respond to me |
| 1:21.6 | greater than my worries about existing in a biased system quietly? |
| 1:27.3 | That lets me make a judgment in my own mind |
| 1:30.1 | of what I really want to do, |
| 1:32.1 | and then I craft a way of speaking out that fits me. |
| 1:38.4 | De-biasing your career, coming up on the broad experience. |
| 1:51.3 | Thank you. Coming up on the Broad Experience. Last time we heard from Raina Brands, a professor at University College London, |
| 1:56.6 | I mentioned that along with a colleague, she runs a website called Career Equally, that they set up to, in their words, empower women to de-biased their careers, which sounds pretty intriguing. |
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