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Every day, patients, physicians, and staff are forced to contend with bias in the hospital environment. Although the negative effects of this exposure are in...

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Janet Crawford dives into the unconscious associations that are often made with regard to gender. It's hard not to reflect on our own unconscious associations as she talks through how our brain creates associations to help us make sense of the world.

National attention has been focused on overt racial tensions on college campuses across the country. But what about smaller, subtle, more persistent forms of racism? Special correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault speaks to Derald Wing Sue of Teachers College at Columbia University about the ways that everyday "microaggressions" can affect people.

There's a difference between discrimination and vigilance, says Margaret Hicken, director of the University of Michigan RacismLab. Discrimination entails day-to-day instances of prejudice whereas vigilance is a never-ending, daily anticipation of discrimination or prejudice. Read the full story: http://myumi.ch/Jmk01

Now more than ever, it's important to look boldly at the reality of race and gender bias -- and understand how the two can combine to create even more harm. Kimberlé Crenshaw uses the term "intersectionality" to describe this phenomenon; as she says, if you're standing in the path of multiple forms of exclusion, you're likely to get hit by both.

If we want science and technology to truly change the world as it certainly can, we need to understand how overlapping forms of discrimination leave some people and perspectives out, and what it might look like to recognize and welcome inclusive participation. Shawntel Okonkwo is an award-winning Ph.D.

Why is gender even a thing? To answer that, we're going back to our three sociological paradigms and how each school of thought approaches gender theory. We'll look at the structural functionalist view that gender is a way of organizing society into complementary roles, the symbolic interactionist take on how gender guides our daily life, and conflict theory's ideas about how gender distributes power within society.

Why is it so important for us to know someone else's gender? We live in a gendered world, but for Audrey, gender is fluid at best an uncomfortable construct. Is there a way to be less reliant on gender in our interactions with people?

Do your words support gender equality and inclusion? Or do they reflect and reinforce a history of excluding women from privilege and power? Listen as Win Chesson shares the story of how his language hurt his family and why your decision to use gender-inclusive language matters.

The notion that all humans are equal is the defining idea of our age. Yet, it is an idea we do not live up to. People are excluded and discriminated against on the basis of sex, gender, race, religion, sexuality. In this urgent and relevant talk, Anne Phillips argues that we need shift how we think of equality.

The evaluation, selection and recruitment processes should follow objectivity, fairness and transparency criteria in each Research Performing Organization (RPO). Evaluation commissions should base their decisions only on quality and must guarantee the equal treatment to all candidates/applicants, irrespective of sex and gender, nationality and ethnicity, sexual orientations, religion and disabilities.

full story: https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/is-women-s-work-evaluated-fairly Does gender bias prevent women from being treated fairly in job interviews, performance assessments, and other evaluations? Yale SOM's Tristan Botelho and his co-author looked at bias in the investment industry by examining data from an online stock recommendation platform. They found that women's ideas simply get less attention than their male colleagues'.

Many diverse groups of learners are considered disadvantaged when applying to medical school, including students from underserved communities, students raised in rural areas, students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, and students considered underrepresented in medicine based on race and ethnicity.

The Society of Black Academic Surgeons (SBAS) motivates, mentors and inspires young surgeons and medical students to pursue academic careers. Robert Higgins, surgeon-in-chief at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, and Edward Cornwell, III, surgeon-in-chief at Howard University Hospital -- previous presidents of SBAS -- discuss the important role the organization plays in the field of academic medicine.

With 2.4 million STEM jobs unfilled in the United States, it is more important than every to encourage students to persist in STEM majors. However, persistence in STEM is a challenge for all students with over half the students leaving the majors. Mentorship has the potential to address the shortage in STEM of students from diverse backgrounds.

Dr. Susan Moeschler, an anesthesiologist and researcher at Mayo Clinic, shares her research on the challenges women face as medical professionals. This interview originally aired May 12, 2018.

Dr. Susan Fleming is a Senior Lecturer at Cornell's Hotel School. After a successful career on Wall Street, she earned a PhD focused on understanding why there are so few women in leadership positions in U.S. society.

PRSGrandRounds presents: "Women in Plastic Surgery." An interactive lecture and Q&A featuring Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery experts Heather j. Furnas, MD & Paco Canales, MD. On July 13, 2017 at 8pm CST, Dr. Furnas participated in a #PRSGrandRounds live lecture and Q&A hosted by @PRSJournal via Facebook Live.

Caprice C. Greenberg, MD, MPH gives her AAS Presidential Address "Sticky Floors and Glass Ceilings" during the 2017 Academic Surgical Congress in Las Vegas, NV. With the increased diversity of our surgical workforce, we must examine our current practices and ensure that we are allowing for unbiased equality in career advancement.

http://www.ted.com Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg looks at why a smaller percentage of women than men reach the top of their professions -- and offers 3 powerful pieces of advice to women aiming for the C-suite.

Even after writing eleven books and winning several awards, Maya Angelou couldn't escape the doubt that she hadn't earned her accomplishments. This feeling of fraudulence is extremely common. Why can't so many of us shake feelings that our ideas and skills aren't worthy of others' attention?

Caroline Simard, Research Director at Stanford's Clayman Institute for Gender Research, discusses implicit bias and stereotypes in science with Jeff Miller, Berkeley Lab's Head of Public Affairs. For more info: http://gender.stanford.edu

Liz Kingston shares 3 very common unconscious biases in the recruitment process as well as a number of strategies on how to counter these. For more information or to see how we can help visit http://kingstonhumancapital.com.au/

Once a Goth chick living in the East Village of New York City, now in the corporate world, Tolstoi-Miller shares her very personal story of bias and how recognizing her own unconscious bias taught her to say "so what". Inspirational. Motivational. And 100%, totally real.

Our vision is to achieve workforce diversity and advance recruitment of groups underrepresented in surgery.

William McDade, MD, PhD, deputy provost for research and minority issues at the University of Chicago, presenting at AMA's ChangeMedEd 2015 conference on physician diversity.