EXPLORING GENDER BIAS IN THE WORKPLACE
By: Michelle Grilli Royal
STANDARD:
- All students will be able to identify women (or men if they are underrepresented) who
are leaders and achievers in the particular core content curriculum area.
- All Students will be able to list strategies to overcome gender bias, stereotyping, and
discrimination.
GRADE LEVEL: 9-12. Mathematics.
OBJECTIVE(S):
- Students will utilize their reading and listening skills in identifying women leaders
and achievers in core content curriculum areas.
- Students will investigate gender bias, discrimination, and harassment at the workplace
of their choice.
- Students will develop strategies to overcome the gender bias, discrimination, and
harassment at the workplace of their choice.
TIME: 2-3 class periods
MATERIALS: Participating companies in the local area
PROCEDURES:
- Students research a non-traditional career of their choice.
- Students gather research of the current statistics about the profession which focuses on
the female/male ratios, the pay scales of the female verses the males.
- Recruit businesses and industry partners sensitive to equity issues (which are
committed to equitable hiring practices)
- Provide mentoring opportunities for students placed in the occupational areas with very
few same gender coworkers.
- Students job shadow at the job site, to compare the statistics found with the actual
numbers at a job site.
- Students return to the classroom to compare their findings and relate these findings to
their classmates.
- The students interview an anonymous person in that nontraditional career to gather
information on a potential role model of a leader or achiever who has overcome any forms
of gender bias.
- Students graph their findings with their class on a histogram to show the comparisons or
differences among the many career choices that have been investigated.
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