How to design gender bias out of your workplace | Sara Sanford 

“Anytime someone calls attention to the breaking of gender roles, it ultimately undermines the concept of gender equality by implying that this is an exception and not the status quo.” - Knuckles, Sonic Boom

"Equity expert" This tells you everything.

Hiring someone for diversity points instead of real qualifications is a pretty good way to ruin your business

There is no workplace as of now..

I'd like to see a TED talk offering counterpoints to this presentation. Not likely to happen. These talks are compromised.

Also, unless you Enslave men and women, you CANNOT design a system without gender bias. Men and women have different preferences, even in the most Westernized societies.

Now my bias is biased by biased bias.

Get rid of the Gender check box. Hire the best qualified applicants. This isn’t hard

Making a conscious decision not to evaluate employees based on their personalities seems like a good start.

Not all ideas are worth spreading

I’m a guy and I have never gotten access to a mentor. I also am “tolerated” and generally ignored. I always have to work so hard to get noticed and advance. My gf makes more money than me even though I do ok. I do work in healthcare. I don’t think this talk is capturing the truth about what’s going on. Something is kind of off. I dunno, it’s probably just a specific subculture off people that are problematic. I bet the problems are more insidious than anti-women sentiments

I agree, lets get women down the mines, and collecting the bins, cleaning windows and working the sewers. How about hod carriers ? or is it curated equality we're after?

I see TED is really getting down to what people really give a toss about at this moment in time🙈

Thanks to the gender pay gap, I only hire women in my business. Huge profit increase.

Step one: don't hire feminists to run each and every Human Resource department

Pro tip: this talk is actually really entertaining, if you imagine the band from the titanic playing in the background as she speaks .......

What wage gap? Paying people less for the same job is still illegal.

I think it would help if resumes didn't have to include anything except for your qualifications, accomplishments, and your email. All employers need to know about you is that you have the skills to do the job, you can set a goal and achieve it, how to reach you, and that you passed a background check.

Ted talks should rename themselves Me Too talks.

Love this. This subject is too often avoided and those who bring it up, shunned. Thank you for being a voice for women everywhere.

"Getting rid of gender bias" by the pretty woman wearing makeup, nicely done hair, jewelry, and a form fitting dress....

Men and women are different there's no getting around that..get over it

Anyone remember when TED talks were worth listening to? I only clicked on this video to comment this and unsubscribe.

And next week we will see another ted talk on the same exact topic.

Not now TED

There are so many men being salty about having more equality in the workplace. I don’t understand. Did you even listen?

Just automate all the jobs.

i thought gender didn't exist anymore. i can't keep up :(

I was willing to listen, until I got halfway through and had to stop.

I find many talks like this to be vague. This one was not. It had very clear and well laid out solutions. I quite enjoyed it.

Damn. This comment section is fucking toxic. 🤦🏽‍♀️ eliminating bias in evaluations, company culture and the hiring process will not take jobs away from men. It just means people will make decisions (hiring, promoting, etc) based on merit. She even said its not about there being more women in the workplace. Some people dont even realize they are being biased. That's the whole point of this video. And even when things are "equal" in the work place it might not be equitable. Women need family leave and healthcare for dependents because the majority of child care falls on women. We shouldn't have to choose between having a family and a career.

I am all for designing bias for workplace PERFORMANCE. The better the performance, more bias supporing it.

Is this what is truly important at a time like this? ! Let's talk about how unbiased the virus is, truly tells we are all the same.

Trying to make something out of nothing.

STOP SPEWING PROPAGANDA, EMPOWER YOURSELVES PEEPS DONT LISTEN TO THIS BS

This is really a video we need- and the like/dislike proves it. We have a lot of work to do in the western world on issues like sexual assault, domestic violence and workplace inequality. As a guy, it’s really easy for me to see that, and I find it baffling that some others don’t. What a shame. This lack of understanding and empathy for another groups hardship is something that I hope we can heal with time. I do feel as if we’re trending in the right direction, and that something to be hopeful for. Thank-you for your talk and suggestions:)

Wrong time to release this.

This is arguably a worse ted talk compared to the china apologist one

Of all the subjects to discuss right now...

TED should practice social distancing and drop all the social justice BULL !

Hi I’m wahman hire me

Hire on merit. And don't listen to finger wagging scolds who have been infected with identity politics.

Note sure what all the downvotes are about. The three ideas proposed near the end of the talk are pretty common-sense and would be beneficial to everyone.

Is she unironically doing the Pewdiepie meme of mispronouncing 'women'?

Bye bye creativity, spontaneity and inspiration

TED talks really gone down hill . I remember when these talks were interesting intelligent talks and not woke, intersectional, sjw rubbish.

it more important to employ the right person, not because of your a whamen or BAEM or disabled screw this PC BS

Step one: remove soy milk from fridge in break room to weed out weaker men

If you dislike how you are treated at your workplace, then leave. I make more than double what I made when I first started in my field. When I felt mistreated I left, only for something better. Never backwards. Dont try to change your bosses, change your job address.

Eurgh what an ideological mess TedTalks has become

Okay genuine question here... when a woman rightfully raises questions about biases in an office setting, WHY do all the men refute with _"why are there no women in mining or working as garbage collectors?? huh? you only want equality in higher level positions!"_ A woman will speak about the current problem SHE'S facing, if she happens to be working in an office, she happens to be working in an office. The "women don't work as garbage collectors or in mines!" argument is never brought up UNLESS a woman opens up about biases at her workplace.... almost like y'all only care about the "no women working in mines" problem, if it is to shut other women up...

I am all for women being treated fairly and being given equal opportunity but it should never give them the green light to walk all over men and treat them in a substandard manner. Also, the hiring of the most skilled worker or person best suited to the position is not gender bias! Hiring women for the sake of just hiring more women is blatant gender bias!

Im a manager of many years of experience along with other 10 guys in my team and Im treated like a secretary. Last time Ive had an interview the feedback they gave me was that I was somehow "reserved" whereas in fact I was collected and friendly but not overly bubbly or flirtatious. Another huge company I applied to sent me an assessment to fill in to judge my character and one of the questions was if I ever use my charm if I want something from someone.. wtf

Ted has changed in the last few years, I subbed for the technology, now I sub for the occasional decent speech but don’t watch much anymore.

Oh I see the problem. They are confusing pay gap with work/risk gap.

How bout treat folks the way you want to be treated. And pay folks for the job they do n the hours they put in.

Answer to the title starts at 6:50

93 % of work place fatalities are men.. tell your dear sisters to take a fair share of that because it's a bigger gap here.. even bigger than your wage gap.. It's an actual life/death gap.

next years ted topic - CAN MEN LEARN? excellent listen, too bad it coasted over commenters heads

Wow, this comment section is absolutely filled with hot garbage.

Guys, there is a simple way to cut out the office drama and any potential lawsuits in the workplace. Stop hiring young women, only date them outside the office, but please don't hire them. They are not worth the trouble to the bottom line of your company or your careers. A word to the wise.

this is a work of fiction.

What were the factors that where important for men and not for women? What was the one they had in common? Perhaps the factors that men deem acceptable are cheaper for the company?

When evil is masked by a pretty face and a sweet voice.

Wow, what...women suffer from self doubt??? I am so glad that I am a man as we never suffer from it.......oh wait🤔

Garbage Worthy

Nice anecdote at the start. Ofcourse we have to take your word for it since neither men are here to defend themselves. Goodluck proving any of these examples of bias are true, since many so called strong wamen are too afraid to even confront the people that are putting them into this social faux pas. Also hire employees according to their skills, education or a good job interview not 'because she is a wamen' or 'we need moar diversity' or 'he is a white male so he must be gut'. Gtfo. At 12:00 she even states 'based on the data that matters', sounds a little biased don't you think? It's almost like she started at a drawn conclusion and then followed the evidence to support her claims. Very scientific, would definitely hire 10/10.

Did it ever cross your mind that maybe your proposal simply wasn't good enough?

She gets it! 😄 I’m a little disappointed to see all the idiots leaving unduly critical comments down below.... though they’re really just proving her point.

Focus on problems that actually exist instead, how about that?

By not caring about gender and focus on competency

We all know Howards in our workplaces. Men who only trust other men. But why don't we also talk about the Heathers? There's also Heathers who value women's opinions more than mens. I'm perfectly fine acknowledging both Howard and Heather but I will not only acknowledge one of them because that would be inequality.

unsubbed, blocked and reported

There should be a complete fairness of treatment for both men and women. We need gender equity to stabilize a nation. In order to have gender equity, we need to change the narrative and focus away from fixing women and put it squarely where it belongs, fixing the system. A system that has generated a leaky pipeline and suppressed economic opportunity at all levels - individual, family, company, and country.

Dear Ted, thank you for this video. Incidentally, I am reading Invisible Women, by Caroline Criado Perez. You read my mind.

Does she say "woman" (singular) when she means "women" (plural). What is that, royal singular?

Is the goal to remove input bias or to control the outcome?

Interesting (sadly, not surprising) to see so many negative comments made by men.

Loaded topic for sure. The question is whether or not you want equality of opportunity or equality of outcome. If you are pushing for equality of outcome, you are going down a road that will not end well for anyone. I also don't believe the speaker really got in to it at all that there are fundamental differences between men and women. That isn't PC to bring up but it is the catch 22. If you acknowledge the differences, you may have to acknowledge that there is a reason for the pay gap (I.E. Women wanting to stay home or women choosing jobs that allow for more work/life balance). If you deny the differences, you have nothing to stand on when fighting for equality. So there must be an honest conversation about these things.

It’s written Seattle behind presenter Is this held in Seattle?

She briefly mentioned something that is a key factor when discussing inequality. Women routinely care about a dozen things , while men care about three. That's important. Think of it in reverse. Would you rather work for someone who wants you to do twelve things, or would you want to work for someone who wants you to do three?

↓日本人で観てる人いる？

... was different this channel ..

Bias has nothing to do with it. Compete, demonstrate competence. Equality. .... Good luck !

Why we need to hire women? When work is about productivity? So, hire by merit. Ffs

This presenter is just speaking so many myths as if they were true. The pay Gap is the result of the free choice of men and women. It is not due to large-scale oppression of women. Men do almost all of the dangerous jobs, do almost all of the jobs outside, do almost all the physical jobs, and they more often then women choose higher-paying Fields And Men also choose 2 work more hours than women do. Regardless of whether women have children or not. This is all been proven by in-depth psychological studies. This idea that she's implying that the difference in the amount of money each gender makes is due to sexism is just wrong. This is been debunked over and over. Why are there still TED talks like this spouting these myths? And has this presenter ever considered the fact that equal outcome is actually tyrannous and goes against the freedom of choice of both men and women? There are proven, documented differences in job preference between the sexes. The fact is women generally just don't want to work the same number of hours or in the same types of jobs as man, and that's okay. Why does this presenter want to force women to work stressful jobs and long hours when they don't want to?

I am a man working in the tech industry and its 100% true what she says

Knew when I seen the title there would be a lot of whiney toxic masculinity people in the comments wasn’t disappointed listen guys you don’t have to be scared of women talking about feminism your little peter shouldn’t be so worried it’s alright

THICC

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I read the title, made a judgment, decided to listen in case she proved me wrong... She didn't! TED is getting more and more ridiculous with each SJW video. Equality of OPPORTUNITY not OUTCOME.

Maybe this person should check her own bias . Seems to me men are being persecuted and discriminated against . This video is a perfect example

How to design gender bias INTO your workplace | Sara Sanford

Iowa, Great.

She's hot! Sorry, that outfit is revealing. I can see you're a woman. Men are attracted to the female shape. I can't break down gender bias.

The part about being intolerated is right on the spot. Can’t Humans just respect and work hands in hands with each other?

Awesome ppt. Great content.

Wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, while it's not worthy of my like, I do feel like it's better than 90% of ted talks on topics like this

Thanks for sharing your story, and have courage to help us women.

It's funny and coincidence you're having this problems, because me as a male working for many years at call centers, its just the opposite for me. The woman always run the centers, they won't allow me to move up and discriminate me.