How I Learned to Love Unconscious Bias | Kristin Maschka | TEDxPasadenaWomen

Unconscious bias seeps into nearly every aspect of our everyday lives. Learn how to embrace the bias and bring about change in this compelling and entertaining talk.

Kristin Maschka is an author, speaker and consultant fascinated by change – change that will lead to women’s equality and change that helps both organizations and the people in them to thrive. She is the author of “This is Not How I Thought It Would Be: Remodeling Motherhood to Get the Lives We Want Today,” in which she weaves together her own story with a deep knowledge of history and society to offer parents a new perspective on their experiences and a set of tools for remodeling their own lives and the world around them. Kristin’s TEDxPasadenaWomen talk focused on the unconscious bias we all have and we all face.

[pete]

So what she's saying is that women are incapable of negotiating for a higher salary unless they are expressly told to do so? I find that extremely insulting to women

[artiemx]

"everybody needs to change the way they live so that it fits my opinion"

[monsterram]

Seeking women to replace all the men at my factory since they supposedly work for less. Job requires 12+ hour days, in dangerous conditions, while under pressure of time constraints. 17% of our workers suffer temporary or permanent disability and 1/20 die on the job. No paid vacations.

[recynd]

To quote Hunter Avalone's mother, "Some people should never have children."

[hatelove]

Just looked through the comments for about half an hour and I didn't find a single one that supports or defends this video. Gee I wonder why ;D

[rev]

If there are more male doctors than female doctors, it's not unconscious bias to think of a room full of men when asked to think about a room full of doctors. That's just recognizing the norms. Think of a room full of basketball players. If those were all male, that's because you're used to seeing more NBA coverage than WNBA coverage etc.

Unconscious bias would be if you thought a female doctor was less capable than a male doctor based only on gender.

[cynicalape]

This lady must have exhausted after dragging that dead horse out on stage !

[elephantricity]

Funny she didn't mention woman are twice as likely to get a job in a stem-field job as a man. Also how judges more often rule in favor of the mother in divorce proceedings.

[llJRLLll]

Check the governments own stats that say women and men make almost identical amounts when controlling for types of work, education, etc. When you compare a librarian to a doctor, well there might be a pay gap

[tpark]

I am in! Wow! Thank YOU Kristen! So elegantly presented!!! Congratulations! I am going to share this with Sophia & Josie & my niece. And please ask Kate if she would make one of those Tshirts for me!

[frazeeel]

Wow look at the like/ dislike ratio. says it all

[ChilloutCharles]

If I get drunk and I state an opinion, do I have the opinion's consent, or is it unconscious bias?

[GoA]

Equality of opportunity doesn't and shouldn't mean equality of outcome. Long live the Meritocracy.

[robs]

I love how Feminists spew out the same comments without ever offering up any proof or statistical data to back up their claims.

[imbatman]

4:07 here comes the wambulance, how appropriate.

[nickbenkster]

Bullshit bullshit, avoid the facts avoid the facts

[davidstebbing]

Would be more appropriate to hold the event on April 1st.

[TheAutistWhisperer]

"unconscious bias" sounds like you're enacting a no win scenario. Men have a physical advantage over women, that's not a bias, its nature, plain and simple, deal with it. Furthermore men do get penalise when negotiation, just look at footballers, they try and get a new contract, they don't, they leave. Be more assertive and you will get the big bucks, the world owes you nothing.

[pyroromancer]

If women ever make up 50% of combat deaths or 50% of enlisted soldiers in the army. We'll talk.

[mysterymastermind]

I get the sense this woman wants to dictate to women what roles they are and are not allowed to fill. I thought telling certain people their gender demands they take a certain role is the thing Feminists were trying to fight, not uplift.

Further proof feminism is filled with double standards.