Erasing Institutional Bias

Introduction

How Ordinary People Can Identify and Eliminate Institutional Bias

Erasing Institutional Bias: How to Create Systemic Change for Organizational Inclusion is the follow up to Overcoming Bias: Building Authentic Relationships Across Differences. The focus of the first book was on interpersonal bias and how individuals could address their own hidden perspectives. Erasing Institutional Bias (EIB) was written because bias also operates at a systems level as systems are created by humans.

Interpersonal sexism might lead a person to make an inadvertently sexist assumption about a person based on gender. For example, when a man and a woman from the same company walk into a business meeting and people assume the man holds the higher position ...