Gender Equity Workshop
As part of WHOI's Gender Equity Program, the Institution has contracted
with Dr. Bernice Sandler to assist us in developing an on-going education
program. The first phase of this program, which is nearing completion,
involves a workshop on "An Introduction to the Chilly Climate". This
workshop was offered multiple times in 2004, and the present workshop
is open to any WHOI employee who was unable to participate previously.
In beginning to consider the issues, Dr. Sandler was asked to provide
us with a definition of a "chilly climate" for women in the workplace.
Her response was: "Although most people try to treat everyone fairly,
many of us --- men and women alike -- often inadvertently treat women
differently in many small ways. For example, women are interrupted more
often, receive less eye-contact and are included less in professional
interactions. Males are called upon more often in meetings, classrooms,
and in ordinary conversation.
These myriad small behaviors are often unnoticed by the people who engage
in them and by women themselves. Taken by themselves, these behaviors
may have a minuscule effect, if any at all. Yet when these behaviors
happen again and again, and especially if they are not recognized or
understood, they often have a damaging cumulative effect, creating an
environment that is indeed chilly -- an environment that dampens women's
self-esteem, confidence, aspirations, learning and participation. Although
the chilly climate certainly includes overtly discriminatory behaviors
which are more easily recognized, it is the more subtle behaviors that
will be explored in the workshops."
Related Links
To learn more about Dr. Sandler
visit Dr. Bernice Sandler's Web
site
To review the 2000 Report of WHOI's Gender Equity Committee, the Director's responses and subsequent activity
visit Web site (WHOI Employees Only)
More information about the current Gender Equity Program
Advisory Committee (GEPAC) activities
visit GEPAC Web site (WHOI Employees Only)
If you participated in one of the prior workshops with Dr. Sandler there
is no need to attend.
Date: January 25
Time: 12:00 - 2:00 PM
Place: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Clark 271
Costs: Free, Lunch will be provided.
Sponsor: WHOI's Gender Equity Program
Contact: Lucinda Gathercole, (lgathercole@whoi.edu,
x2394) by this Friday, January 21st, if plan to attend the workshop.
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