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Stepping-In for Respect: Gender Bias for Leaders is a workshop intended to help leaders use their influence to cultivate a safe, harassment-free working and learning environment. Leaders play an instrumental role in shaping their unit’s climate and increasing the possibility that all our students, faculty, and staff have the opportunity to develop and contribute to their full potential. This learning experience is designed to support leaders in developing foundational knowledge and reflective skills necessary to cultivate climates that are more resistant to gender bias, therefore positively impacting the workplace environment and healthcare delivery.
You will learn to:
- Identify gender bias and how it relates to sexual harassment
- Discover the role and responsibility of leaders in creating cultures resistant to gender bias
You will benefit by:
- Viewing scenarios of real events that have happened in the healthcare field
- Being able to have open and honest conversations with peers on how to handle these situations
- Gaining a better understanding about the harm of gender bias to individuals, departments and the medical community at large
Founded in 2010, the National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity (NCFDD) is the leading provider of professional development in higher education. Working with over 300 colleges and universities, as well as thousands of individuals in schools across the country, they are 100% devoted to supporting faculty members, postdocs and graduate students in making successful transitions throughout their careers.
- NCFDD is an independent professional development, training, and mentoring community of faculty, postdocs, & graduate students from over 450 colleges and universities.
- NCFDD is 100% dedicated to helping academics thrive in the Academy.
- NCFDD partners with colleges and universities to provide professional development and training resources.
- Our programs and services are designed to help scholars increase their research productivity and work-life balance.
- NCFDD was founded in 2010 with the mission of Changing the Face of Power in the Academy.
This center at Massachusetts General Hospital is dedicated to the development and implementation of strategies that advance policy and practice to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare.
This course provides a deeper look into how unconscious bias impacts decision making during the hiring process while looking at interventions to minimize the impact of bias in our hiring and selection processes.
With so much to be done, it can be paralyzing to know where to begin. As we move toward action, we can find ourselves afraid to make mistakes. We may also feel that we must figure it all out before we act. In the midst of this we are bombarded with links, lists and ideas of what to do.
Joining the fight for justice means pushing through discomfort and fear and starting somewhere! This Anti-Racism Primer is designed to help you do just that.
This content is available at no cost for U-M faculty and staff on the Ann Arbor, Flint, Dearborn campuses and Michigan Medicine.