Cope with Gender Bias in Your Office

If you feel like you're experiencing Gender Bias in your workplace, these are some tips on ow to deal with it.

Steps

  1. You shouldn't have to deal with Gender Bias within your workplaceWithin the workplace, equality should be present at all times to allow for a calm and safe place for all employees to work. Should you be experiencing Gender Bias within your office, it's very important that you do something right away, making sure the ideology isn't given a chance to spread.
  2. Should you want to take on the heads on approach, it's advisable that in the first instance you confront the individual or group responsible for making you feel this way. They are creating an uncomfortable atmosphere for your and your colleagues, so you have a right to speak out. This can be done in a manner of ways:
    • Sending an email to your colleague CCing your manager and their manager (should they be a separate individual) notifying them of their actions and kindly asking them to realise their bias is affecting you.
    • Speak with your manager about what is happening and allow them to handle the process. There is nothing wrong with passing on the issue to someone with a higher level of authority to you
  3. Start talking about this issue with your colleagues. Make sure you aren't the only one feeling that this discrimination is happening.Talking about the issue will raise awareness of what is happening when colleagues may not be aware. It will also make sure those participating in the bias to identify themselves to a larger group rather than making you feel like you have been singled out.Some people are happy to voice their bias to smaller groups rather than to the bigger audience (ie your office) so shining a light on the issue may make them call into question their own bias.
  4. A note for business owners, if one of your staff brings to light gender bias, or any bias in fact, within your business, you should do everything in your power to relieve the situation. There are organisations that provide Unconscious Bias training to help route out the issues, as well as help businesses before they know they need the help.
  5. It's not always men gender bias against women, it can happen the other way around as well. In 2012, ABC News reported that "a male employee of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is suing the agency for gender discrimination, claiming that a physical fitness test to become and FBI agent is biased against men".

Tips

  • Make sure you report any aggressive levels of gender bias that take place to a member of authority within your workplace
  • Treat Gender Bias as soon as it occurs, don't let is fester into a bad workplace ethic

References

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