Bias Interrupted, Joan C. Williams
Bias Interrupted, Joan C. Williams
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Bias Interrupted
Creating Inclusion For Real and For Good

Author: Joan C. Williams

Narrator: Elisabeth Rodgers

Unabridged: 5 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 11/16/2021

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

A cutting edge, relentless, objective approach to inclusion.

Companies spend billions of dollars annually on diversity efforts, with remarkably few results. Too often diversity efforts rest on the assumption that all that's needed is an earnest conversation about "privilege." That's not enough. To truly make progress with diversity, equity and inclusion, we must focus less on documenting the problem and more on just stopping the transmission of it.

In Bias Interrupted, Joan C. Williams shows how it's done, and reassuringly, how easy it is to get started. Leaders just need to use standard business systems and standard business tools—data and metrics—to interrupt the bias that is constantly transmitted through formal systems like performance appraisals and the informal systems that control access to opportunities, like mentoring programs. The book presents fresh evidence based on Williams’s research and work with companies, in that interrupting bias helps every group—including white men.

Comprehensive, though compact and straightforward, Bias Interrupted delivers real, practical value in as efficient and accessible manner as possible to an audience that has never needed it more. It's possible to interrupt bias. Here's where you start.

About Joan C. Williams

Joan C. Williams is Distinguished Professor of Law and Hastings Foundation Chair at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. Williams’ work includes What Works for Women at Work, coauthored with Rachel Dempsey; Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What To Do about It; and such widely read reports as “The Three Faces of Work-Family Conflict,” coauthored with Heather Boushey. Williams is frequently featured as an expert on social class. For more information, visit JoanCWilliams.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Terence

This is a good - albeit frustratingly limited - book. The central thesis is that we all have biases, and that it's impossible to control our automatic reaction provoked by those biases. Therefore, we should look to interrupt those biases. Deliberately act to prevent those biases from influencing you......more

Goodreads review by Steve

As Stevo’s Novel Ideas, I am a long-time book reviewer, member of the media, an Influencer, and a content provider. I received this book as a free review copy from either the publisher, a publicist, or the author, and have not been compensated for reviewing or recommending it. This book was Stevo's B......more

Goodreads review by Cassidy

I get frustrated by these books that talk about the issue all day long but really don’t get to the brass tax - established companies don’t want to change. Minor changes are a great start, as is the educating groups on how to become more self aware of their actions; but when you’re swimming against t......more

Goodreads review by Anne

Everyone interested in making the workplace more meritocratic and improving diversity in your team and organization should read this book! The book does a fantastic job of explaining different types of common bias in the workplace. The book illustrates how it is easy to overlook or be unaware of thes......more

Goodreads review by Jason

Overall, a highly relevant, highly recommended read. I learned a lot about DEI issues and concerns in the business world, many of which apply to my daily work. The author does a great job breaking into evidence-based data and discussions on the origins of bias, descriptions and examples of common bia......more