LEAPS Employer Toolkit: Preventing Workplace Sexual Harassment
With the LEAPS-SH Toolkit, you will be able to operationalize:
● Prevention: Proactive measures cultivate and sustain safe and respectful ecosystems, and can prevent harassment from occurring in the first place.
● Effective Response: Clear reporting procedures combined with trauma-informed support to victims can resolve incidents more successfully and prevent further damage to your organization.
● Sustainable transformation: Understanding power dynamics and their systemic impacts empowers leaders with a strong foundation to not only direct change but sustain it.
How to Measure the Success of Anti-Harassment Training Programs for Women in Tech?
Post-training surveys measure women in tech’s anti-harassment program success by assessing workplace comfort and response confidence before and after. Other metrics include changes in knowledge, attitudes, reporting rates, behavioral shifts, turnover rates, legal actions, and employee engagement. Success indicators also involve high training participation, improved equity audit results, and insights from focus groups or interviews, portraying a comprehensive understanding of …
Negotiating legitimacy and belonging: Disabled students’ and practitioners’ experience
People with disabilities are underrepresented in health professions education and practice. Barriers for inclusion include stigma, disabling discourses, discriminatory programme design and oppressive interactions. Current understandings of this topic remain descriptive and fragmented.
Supporting sexual and gender minority health-care workers
Sexual and/or gender minority health-care workers are subject to the heteronormativity and cisnormativity of society and often face open discrimination. Empowering these individuals to bring their full, authentic selves to work so that they can serve their patients and institutions with the totality of their strengths requires institutes and cisgender or straight allies to support LGBTQ+ communities by creating a culture of inclusivity and enacting progressive policies.
Essential but undervalued: Millions of health care workers aren’t getting the pay or respect they deserve in the COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has inspired an outpouring of public appreciation for the country’s frontline heroes, from television ads to firefighter salutes to essential worker toys. But while doctors and nurses deserve our praise, they are not the only ones risking their lives during the pandemic—in fact, they represent less than 20% of all essential health workers.
Childcare Stress, Burnout, and Intent to Reduce Hours or Leave the Job During the COVID-19 Pandemic Among US Health Care Workers
In this survey study, with 58 408 respondents conducted between April and December 2020, high CCS was associated with 80% greater odds of burnout in all health care workers.
Racism as Experienced by Physicians of Color in the Health Care Setting
Physicians of color are likely to experience significant racism while providing health care in their workplace settings, and they are likely to feel unsupported by their institutions when these experiences occur. Institutions seeking a more equitable workplace environment should intentionally include diversity and inclusion as part of their effort.