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The Power of Micro-Affirmations and Micro-Advantages
Recently, we dove into the topic of microaggressions at work in a guest blog on the CultureAmp website. While it’s critically important to understand what microaggressions are, how they impact marginalized people, and best ways we can respond, we thought we would take some time to explore the flipside of this– the micro-affirmation and the micro-advantage.
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Election Series: Greater Boston Area Female Candidates for Massachusetts State Representative
This week, we’re continuing our series on the amazing women running in the Massachusetts primary election this fall with some of the candidates for MA State Representative. While these candidates only cover the Greater Boston Area, we’ll return with the rest of the candidates for State Representative next week, to (eventually) give you the full primer on all of the awesome women you should know about when casting your ballot in the primary on September 4th.
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Election Series: Female Candidates for Congress in Massachusetts
In advance of our upcoming Inclusion Geeks panel featuring Ayanna Pressley, Brianna Wu, and Sam Hammar, we thought we’d shine a little light on some of the amazing women on the ballot for Massachusetts this primary election season. From the candidates running for Congress, to State Senate, State House, and even municipal and county positions, we hope this blog series will be a useful primer to help you make the right choices for yourself and your community in the upcoming primary– and to get the candidates you want on the ballot for the midterm election this November.
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Massachusetts Gender Pay Equity Law – What to Know
In 1945, Massachusetts was the first state to pass a law to address gender discrimination with regard to pay. Over the years, other states, and eventually the federal government, passed laws to reduce the gender wage gap. As many people know (and some still refute), the gender pay gap is very much still real, with, according to the State of Massachusetts, women who work full time on average earn 84.3% of what men earn, with the gap being even larger for women of color.
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Resources for Supporting Transgender Employees
In honor of Pride Month, we’re including some of our favorite resources specifically dedicated to supporting transgender employees. These companies and organizations have done an incredible job of creating buckets of resources, from glossaries to templates, and lists upon lists of best practices. We’re also including some of our favorite videos on being transgender. We hope that this list of resources not only provides you with insight on what being transgender means, but also how best to support your transgender employees.
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Making the Business Case for Inclusion
It isn’t hard to find research that shows that having a more diverse team is better for a company’s bottom line. Harvard Business Review found that diverse teams are smarter, McKinsey found that diverse teams provide more profit when looking at both gender and race, and Credit Suisse found that large-cap companies with at least one woman on the board have outperformed their peers with no women. These are just a few of the many research examples that you might find if you are searching for reasons to convince your leadership to pay attention to having a more diverse workforce.
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2018 Boston Tech Diversity and Inclusion Report
As a Boston-based company who works with many tech companies locally, we were curious to see how the burgeoning Boston tech industry fares when it comes to its thoughts on diversity and inclusion. We asked those who identify as part of the tech community in the greater Boston area to participate in a survey to provide their thoughts on diversity and inclusion, how they believe their company is responding to the current wave of interest on the topic, and if they feel as though they’re being treated fairly and feel included at their company.
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Three Events – One Night – Three Cities!
Are you in San Francisco, New York City, or Boston on May 22nd, and looking for something super fun to do? Ahhhh, we have JUST THE THING! For the first time, as a way to celebrate our expansion into two new cities, we’re going to party it up in all three on the same night. YAS!!! Bring your friends and tell your friends. And we’ll be all over the socials that night too. We can’t wait to see you all there!
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Seven Tech Tools to Mitigate Bias in Hiring
Looking for an updated list of tech tools to mitigate bias in hiring? Check out even more tools here! Now, more than ever, tech companies, in particular, are looking at ways to increase the number of underrepresented employees in their workforce. We, of course, encourage education as one way to deepen your understanding of biases that can lead to a more homogeneous workforce. But we do understand that companies may also want to use technology to help the process move along more quickly.
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Hiring Spotlight: Meet Rachel and Juliet
Written by Whitney Klepadio, Workable Two wonderful humans, Rachel and Juliet, work together at Workable. Guess how they met? At an Inclusion Geeks event, of course! We asked them to share something about themselves, how the hiring process was, and to tell us how things are going so far! Tell us a little bit about yourself – What’s your background and your story? RACHEL– I never thought I was meant for a career in sales. In college, I started my career where I had to go to small businesses all over Liverpool asking people to participate in a survey.
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Mandatory bias training- it’s so hot right now, but it probably shouldn’t be
You’re so excited about finally getting approval to run unconscious bias training at your company. You’ve got budget, you’ve got a timeline, senior leadership is in. Great! You’re probably thinking, let’s get everybody trained! Especially those folks that you think really need it. You want to change hearts and minds, make everyone more engaged and excited about treating their fellow co-workers in a more respectful way. Unfortunately, while your intentions are noble, they can backfire.
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How to Check your Bias When Interviewing Introverts
According to Susan Cain, author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, the world and workplace places a greater premium on extroverts. Drawing on decades of research and interviews, she makes a compelling case that introverts are frequently overlooked. It’s hard to ignore this truth when you think about it.