“We must also learn how to be inclusive with our peers.”
Bias is a battle to be tackled every day. Women experience bias when their work is undermined in the workplace by unequal pay, gender inequality or a hostile work environment. For women who have been working for the last 20 years it’s impossible they have not experienced any bias in their career, even if it’s unconscious and unintentional.
The world has changed a lot and is still moving towards a better environment at the workplace. We must fully acknowledge the reason it happens in order to address the problem and speak openly with the one who is undermining us. We need to talk incessantly about the problem of bias.
When detecting the problem at the workplace, we must promote discussions to raise awareness about the problem and find solutions and ways of coping with bias. Many have learned what it is to be an expert in our field, but we must also learn how to be inclusive with our peers. We need to build a supporting workplace environment by acknowledging behaviours that undermine and learn the skills required to make the needed change sustainable.
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