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Avoid Building Structural Discrimination into Your Company
In this video lesson, psychologist Valerie Purdue Greenaway discusses how structural discrimination is embedded in institutional practices and offers strategies to address it, emphasizing the importance of inclusive assessments and workplace cues that promote shared experiences among diverse groups.
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Becoming Conscious of Unconscious Bias
Professor Valerie Purdie Greenaway highlights that while overt discrimination receives attention, subtle, unintentional biases can be equally or more harmful, yet everyone has the ability to recognize and address these biases.
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Practice Inclusive Hiring
In this video lesson, inclusion specialist Ruchika Malhotra outlines strategies for standardizing interview processes to enhance inclusivity, including anonymizing resumes, leveling expectations, reducing affinity bias, and customizing questions for diverse candidates.
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Broaden Your Recruitment Efforts
To create a more inclusive work environment, organizations should prioritize hiring for “culture add” by diversifying their candidate pool, rethinking job listings to attract underrepresented demographics, and ensuring at least 50% of candidates are non-male and non-white.
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Deliver Unbiased Feedback
In this video lesson, inclusion specialist Ruchika Malhotra emphasizes the importance of delivering clear, actionable feedback to women of color by using the Situation-Behavior-Impact (SBI) framework to focus on substance rather than vague comments about style.
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Design Inclusive Meetings in Practice
Inclusion specialist Ruchika Malhotra emphasizes the importance of fostering inclusivity in meetings by implementing strategies like a “no interruptions” rule and amplifying others’ ideas to ensure that all voices are heard and credited appropriately.
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Design Inclusive Meetings in Theory
Ruchika Malhotra emphasizes that meetings should be redesigned to foster inclusivity, ensuring equal opportunities for all participants to share and receive credit for their ideas, thereby enhancing innovation and reducing marginalization.
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Create Equal Opportunities
In this video lesson, inclusion strategist Ruchika Malhotra highlights the unfair distribution of “office housework,” which disproportionately burdens women and people of color, and offers strategies for ensuring a fairer division of tasks to support career advancement.
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Rethink the Term “Microaggressions”
In a video lesson, inclusion strategist Ruchika Malhotra emphasizes the importance of recognizing “exclusionary behaviors,” such as mispronouncing names and stereotype-based assumptions, which can significantly impact marginalized individuals’ well-being and sense of belonging, and suggests asking for correct name pronunciations as a simple act of inclusion.
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Key Concepts for Understanding the Experiences of Marginalized Groups
In this video lesson, inclusion strategist Ruchika Malhotra explores how intersecting marginalized identities can compound workplace challenges, emphasizing the need for inclusive cultures to support women of color, who often face both hypervisibility and invisibility, and are frequently underestimated in their career progression.