What does a world without gender inequality look like?/
What is our goal?
Men and women are not equal
Women give birth to 100% of the babies
Not sexist
Too few men wear skirts
Scottish guy
Biased world:
Oh my god you’re a weirdo
We don’t serve
Man thrown out of neighbourhood for wearing a skirt
Ideal world:
Hey yeah there’s a store down the street
Welcome gentleman!
Oh wow you lovely in that skirt
They don’t translate their notions of they see into personal biases
Go for Equality of Opportunity, can’t help Equality of outcome
*Data from Norway
**Fighting the problem
**Actively fight biases
They creep up automatically
You have to stop yourself everyday consciously
You’re human after
Think before you talk
Increase the top of the funnel make and make sure every jump is optimised
The bottom may not be 50/50
Stop propagating assumed gender biases throughout childhood.
*Look for studies of effect of toys on kids
**What not to do
**Generalize mercilessly
*XKCD comic
*XKCD comic rebuttal
Be better human being
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