This content was created by GHION.AI . This content was uploaded by GHION.AI . This is a YouTube video titled "Empowering Women and Underrepresented Groups in STEM" created on November 10, 2021. It features a discussion between two speakers addressing the challenges faced by women and underrepresented groups in leadership positions, focusing on microaggressions and the importance of allyship.
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It's not an easy life to be.
A woman, a woman in a position of leadership. And I think the same is true for other underrepresented groups. There are multiple, I think, what have come to be called microaggressions, where it's nothing that you can, like, call out without sounding like a petulant child, but that happen all the time, that are really kind of accumulate and make it.
Hard for someone to really lay claim.
To the contributions that one makes without having to constantly fight for it.
And so for those of you in.
The audience, I will make a call to all of you and not just.
The women, that when you see these microaggressions occurring, speak out. If it's you who needs to speak out. It's hard to do that without feeling like you're whining.
But there are ways that I think are one can navigate that.
And maybe even more importantly to those of you who see it happening, and especially if you're a man, say something. So if you're going around the table.
And Jane says something and no one pays attention, and then five minutes later, John says the exact same thing, and everyone says, great idea, John.
Wow. What. What an incredible insight. It's okay for you to say, yeah, John, that was a great idea. And Jane made that. It's a very similar point a few moments ago.
And I think that is very, very impactful. So I would encourage you to think about being supportive in that way to people who otherwise may have a challenge finding their own voice to do that kind.
