Speak Out Story: Why higher education funding remains inaccessible for disabled students.
The Speak Out Stories are a series of anonymous blogs which provide a voice to those who have been silenced, raise awareness of the challenges which others face and empower everyone to advocate for truly inclusive workplaces.
Speak Out Story: Discriminated Against for Becoming my Real Self
The Speak Out Stories are a series of anonymous blogs which provide a voice to those who have been silenced, raise awareness of the challenges which others face and empower everyone to advocate for truly inclusive workplaces.
This story is about Rachael’s journey to becoming her real self, and the challenges along the way.
Speak Out Story: Feelings of being forced to take ill health retirement!
This is the second in the series of our Speak Out Stories.
The Speak Out Stories are a series of anonymous blogs which provide a voice to those who have been silenced, raise awareness of the challenges which others face and empower everyone to advocate for truly inclusive workplaces.
This story is about Rhona’s fight against inequality, social injustice and the abuse of power and authority within Police Scotland.
Why we need to stop saying: “You don’t look like a... {Insert profession}”
With entire professions falling victim to the ‘male, pale, stale’ label, can we really diversify workforces while it remains acceptable to say that women don’t look like they should be doing their jobs?
When the first statement we make to a woman who shares her profession in a traditionally male field is: “You don’t look like a {Insert profession}” we verbalise society's unconscious bias that acts to constrain women to acceptable gender based roles. Perhaps we need to stop telling women what they do and don’t look like when it comes to their jobs and start asking ourselves why we care to comment at all?
In this article I share my views on this commonplace throwaway phrase, it’s negative implications and steps we can each take to live and work more inclusively.