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They found that Americans think our society is much fairer in terms of how wealth and income are shared across racial groups than what the numbers indicate. These overly optimistic perceptions may help explain why the wealth and income gaps persist.

Microsoft is overhauling how it investigates HR disputes

Powerful article written by NBA basketball player, Kyle Korber.

A key component of employee satisfaction is feeling like your voice is valued. Well, here at SunShower, we’ve been not only saying that for more than a dozen years, we’ve offered workshops and training materials you can use to conduct your own workshops.

Here at SunShower, we offer a variety of unconscious bias training ~ classroom training, online streaming and elearning courses.

Are some men so insecure that many women have to throttle back their power?

This article calls out men, white men, to step up for inclusion. Diversity’s happening. The US population, and the workplace, is diversifying.

Diverse and inclusive business practices increase a business' bottom line—better perspectives make for better products and better products make for happier customers.

I see inclusiveness as an art. It’s the music of your workplace and if you’re really inclusive, you can follow that music from everyday encounters into the behaviors and performance reviews.

True inclusion must take into consideration context to determine whether it is successful.

In the context of criminal justice and community safety, implicit bias has been shown to have significant influence in the outcomes of interactions between police and citizens.

MIT grad student Joy Buolamwini was working with facial analysis software when she noticed a problem: the software didn't detect her face -- because the people who coded the algorithm hadn't taught it to identify a broad range of skin tones and facial structures.

Research has shown that we tend to unconsciously group people into a specific social class and prejudice against them based on their accents.

The white Starbucks manager who called 911 on two African American men last week is no longer with the company, with Starbucks’s executive chairman saying the manager likely acted on her own “unconscious bias” when she decided to involve the police.

Conscious and unconscious bias prevents candidates of particular races and those who lack certain characteristics from getting hired.

A recent study at the University of Cincinnati showed that Ouch! trainings work: 82% of trainees reported that they had already used the Ouch! skills in their workplace interactions and personal lives within 3 months.

How to make visible something that’s invisible and unconscious?

In Real Life is a social experiment that shows what happens when online bullying is taken offline.

It really does happen like this, although not as obviously.

Many people — even smart, science-minded ones — have asserted that biological differences can explain the gender gap in math, engineering, and science.

After watching the Google video and reading the Google UB work, it's clear that they are committed to bringing awareness to the problem.

Gamification may provide a way to make an impact and spread awareness in a safe and nonthreatening way.

The topic of unconscious bias is often cited when considering ways companies can improve their diversity and inclusion efforts by recruiting and retaining diverse talent.

We can understand how educating staff about bias can be helpful, but the new model helps us recognize that simply teaching people about bias or offering training isn’t enough.

A wonderful and moving video about true inclusion.