Implicit Bias - How We Hold Women Back | Maureen Fitzgerald | TEDxSFU 

OMG I got so shocked from her implicit bias example! I'm a woman and I've been studying to be a surgeon myself for 14 months now. Even I thought about the "surgeon" of the story as a man... It's scary!

I filed an EEO Complaints four times, each time I won because I kept great records about the mistreatment I received. No woman should be treated as less than her male counterparts. We have power. Let's not be afraid to use it.

It’s true. I am a woman studying engineering and computer sciences, and I often have the feeling that I need to study more than my male friends if I want to be considered as competent as them.

It's true. My English teacher did that test with the class where the nurse says "oh my God that's my son" and nobody in the class got that the nurse was his dad. Gender stereotypes affect our thinking and behavior more than we realize.

"I don't want any woman in the world to feel like she is not quite good enough." My favorite word in this quote is the very first word. If every woman, man, girl, and boy said this, and it was their honest opinion and they owned that opinion strongly enough to say it, we could make serious headway in ending gender inequality. We each have to be able to say, "I don't want any woman in the world to feel like she is not quite good enough."

I’ve always called male babies (my sister had 3 boys) beautiful, with pretty eyes and gorgeous features. It was true. But I’ve taken many college courses on this stuff and my eyes were already open. The fact is, there’s more variety within a gender than across genders, on both sides. And it’s horrendous to put any one in a box. Ultimately, we’re all souls on a journey.

I have seen this lately a lot in the business I work for. All the loan officers are men, all the loan processors are women and they are treated like secretaries instead of respected as equals. When they try to move to loan officers the company hires from outside rather than hire highly educated employees that already work for them.

Fantastic... only one disagreement...flexible working isn’t the solution for the reality that many women’s do more of the childcare and housekeeping...because this means that wr are accepting that it’s ok that the home keeping is left to women by default. Flexible working definitely helps (where possible...(not so possible if you are that surgeon), but the solution is equality in the home.

I like this talk a lot. Not only highlights the problems, but also gives the solutions that we need.

this. This talk needs to be everywhere.

Remote Work and Zoom will help a bit in the Post Covid Economy. But the Speaker articulated many. Great points

Great! Maureen hits on so many points I have always felt - and does it clearly and without judgement. Well done!

great talk. thanks

Great talk, so insightful!

The best ted talk ever!❤️

Something changed through these talks cause I saw all these statstics on social media and it's way more frequently talked about. And I've done lots of homework and I tell others about it. It's a long way to that vision. But actually, recent events really keep stressing how vital that change is, how very necessary. No matter what problem I look at, I always come out at that exact issue and bias and how it affects the traits we box, regardless of who has it or where it appears. The damage is incredibly visible to me and it's massive. But I can breathe, every time I see that people - specially joung people (and particularly young males) - are speaking up. Are taking the time to educate themselves and their peers on these matters of life. I just wonder how many more of a mess we're gonna produce before we see that problem through to a level where gender is no longer "a thing" in society and the full spectrum and sub spectrums are "normal"

just wan to say "leaning in" in my social life helped me a lot so i think it's good advice anyway even if it's not enough.

As a man I understand I am privileged and I fully agree with almost everything Maureen said, except for the pink box being regarded as less valueable, but maybe that's just me and maybe I'm just plain wrong. As I see it the caring and kind nature of women/feminimity is hold in as much regard as male/masculine traits for many reasons in society (which is too much to go into). I personally hold it in higher regard, find it way more valueable and think it should be more prominent in society and goverment than it is right now... But it is true that the blue box traits are preferenced in lot or maybe most places in economic, academic and goverment work places. ( I kind of feel like I know why? But hard to pinpoint in plain text.) And men are seen as blue, women as pink because of impliciet bias. But I feel like we should strife for purple and care more, besides trying to rid implicit bias discrimination.

Minute 7 surgeon story 🙌🏽🙌🏽👏🏼

Excellent talk!

I'm saddened and appalled by the comments men leave under this video. Seriously, save your own sanity and don't read them

fantastic

Just to play devil's advocate, I'm one of those women who tend to occupy top roles in companies, and I regularly get featured alongside other men, even in traditionally male industries like construction safety. I know lots of women are going to be unhappy with this, but I DO agree with the the advice to Lean In. Not to take on the 'burden' of change, but to do no more than what men are already doing. Not all men are successful. But the ones who are, lean in. They actively participate. Men who doubt themselves and hold back don't get leadership positions either. I don't agree with holding position quotas for women - I would be insulted to get a position at a table just because they held it available for me. I want to get it cos I deserved it. I think we want to think critically about whose advice we follow - the advice of women who have held their own, or the advice of women who didn't make it and complain about gender inequality.

WOW! 🤯

Best Ted talk ever, well said

Finally someone criticizing Lean In.

She is absolutely right. From a young age, I resented being put in the pink box. I was constantly being told by society and especially by advertising what a woman was and how a woman should think. I deeply resented it. My first thought was always - since I was at least 12, was that I was a human being FIRST and I'll damn well think and act the way I want to! That did not mean that I didn't like being female and that I didn't want to be female. I sure did. I saw from a young age that women were superior to men but were getting the short end of the stick. I saw many incompetent men promoted and given prominent positions that they did not deserve simply because they were men and I still see that happening all of the time. Wasting half of the brain power in the world simply because that body doesn't have the right genitals, in your opinion, is wrong - and also dangerous for the survival of the world. We have to change this groupthink. Our planet is in peril and we need every strong, competent brain on board or we will not survive as a species.

Of all the other TED talks or any other talks about Gender Issues that I have seen, this is the best among them! Did this woman just give the solution to the world's greatest problem??? Implicit Bias... flexible work, and transparent pay... and of course "Raise our children outside of the pink & blue box"... I just find this to be spiritually and mentally uplifting. Respect

It's all about that equality.

I love wearing red and pink, but, sadly, my uniform is dark blue

Patriarchy gives us our implicit bias for a preference for whomever fits or resembles the image of the great patriarchal father... Hate for the sinner women

3:18 On the other hand, how many women are named John? Really makes one think.

Wow! Yes! Right! Omg

what's the reference to the diaper research?

I’m one of the 99.999% of men who aren’t a CEO and am very happy that I am not. I don’t want to work 24 hours a day and be attacked from below for my job. If you want that life all power to you.

Please kick the misogynistic people out of the comments without disabling the comments. So many misogynistic horrid comments to this video. Why does RU-vid allow this? And please do not turn off comments, just remove the misogynistic ones, it will be wrong to shut up a discussion just because some brute comes in shouting, send the brutes out and let's have a constructive discussion about a critical topic in human society

Didn't realize they gave Cathy Newman a TED Talk

Get rid of patriarchy

Ya BUT women do not want to hold the same responsibility as men generally do...

4:34 Patriarchy. Envious men. Mediocre men. Lazy men. Etc... Wanna see how men are acting in the workplace now in 2022? My videos are of my experiences at my job. I have to make videos and leave them in the comment section of corporate's yt channel.

So how does this work in the industries, sports etc that women have created? What holds back the women who have replicated the achievements of men?

Whereas I definitely would not dispute women facing sexist discrimination, I find it interesting that she interprets a study showing boys being given less affection than girls as somehow being chauvinistic in the favour of boys

So you think a man can do whatever he wants...

So TED is allowing religious sermons...

Implicit bias is folk science. According to the pioneers of the implicit bias research. Studies that test for implicit bias are not replicable and are not effective at predicting discrimination in the real world. But it makes people feel better about themselves for not getting jobs or achieving success. They can just attribute it to “implicit bias” Sad.

Why not continue to be a lawyer and prove the guy wrong? I feel the guy won by making her switch her career.

Wait what did she say? I wasn’t listening

13:55 I don't agree with the first because our brains, as genders, as simply wired different. A group of girls will socialize very differently from a group of boys and this can be seen from kindergarten up to the work place. I also do not agree with the second one. Quotas have been always a very poor strategy of employment. Put simply, you get the job if you are capable of doing what the job says you need to do. If I have 100 positions in my company, I won't block 50 of them just because of some silly quota. I will try to fill them as fast as possible with whatever people prove to me that they are capable and competent of doing those jobs. Blocking theirs names on the resumes won't solve much because you still have to have an interview face to face or at least over the phone call. Flexible work is always good, but not always possible. You can't have flexible work in a bank ( security reasons ) or a factory ( production reasons ) or a school ( time table reasons ).

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It's just our survival instinct. The reason we prefer masculine characteristics is because of our past, because those are the characteristics that brought us where we are now. We reached a point where that's no longer necessary and we need to overcome our basic insticts and evolve around our new society. Still today there are many girls and women that prefer strong men because they feel more secure around them. I liked this speech because it takles the real problem closer than the common feminazis that just see the results and effects of these problems and don't really understand the reasons behind it. Men are not the only guilty ones. Men and women evolved together. Now we have to work together, more united than before to address our problems. We no longer need as many phisically strong men to defend us as in the past, we need more brain power. We need more ideas, proposals and solutions. The smartest and shortest way to achieve that is by working all together and thus having a broader perspective. We ARE different, but diversity is what we need. If everyone thought the same way we would progress a lot slower or not at all

Told that story.. but it went over everyone's heads over her own judgement call on how that man that gave the talk was dressed. That alone shows her own unconscious bias... also.. some of this was debunked in the last two years...

Wait a minute. She bailed out of her career and will never make it to the top of her field. Then she complains about the under representation of women in the top spots? She IS the problem.

I disagree. It's not "adversity."

My follow women love blaming men for everything. We love fingure point at men yet we voted a white male as woman of the year.

All she said had no basis. Just personal opinions that are completely false.

Wrong title ... She does not know what she is talking about: this not implicit bias, this just classical bias or prejudice, a perfectly efficient but sometimes inaccurate way of assessing a situation. Implicit bias is a shortcut taken by the brain when not given enough time to think but that completely disappears after a few milliseconds of thinking.

Instead of studying as hard let's just blame an entire group of people instead. She has used data but not said what the women graduated in. Believe me if someone was smart and hard working enough then usually they will be rewarded. That's just economic sense. Why would firms not employ smart women when they supposedly paid less? I've worked with plenty smart and capable women. I've also seen many women not being treated the same as men. For example not doing the physically demanding roles and expecting the same rates. I've also seen guys made redundant so that more women could be employed. A female director was behind this. Life isn't fair but dont blame an entire race or gender for it.

*What* gender gap? You're built for different things (thank god) Accept it. You don't have a choice.