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Glossary of Bias Terms

Glossary of Bias Terms | Students
In order to best facilitate dialogue, the Bias Report and Support team believes that it is important to share a common language of social justice terms. This glossary is not meant to be exhaustive. Because of the way that language works, particularly around these concepts, it is important to note that many of these terms continue to evolve.
https://students.wustl.edu/glossary-bias-terms/
This discusses different Identities, types of bias, and other helpful terms

Racism and Sexism in the open source community

The Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation online learning classes
https://trainingportal.linuxfoundation.org/learn/course/inclusive-open-source-community-orientation-lfc102/introduction/course-information
30-45 minutes course

An Incomplete Guide to Inclusive Language for Startups and Tech

Guide: Inclusive Language and Vocabulary for Startups and Tech
Language is one of the most powerful tools we have as humans. It binds us. Instructs us. When used well, it creates a common understanding. And it's essential for creating an environment where everyone feels welcome and included. Historically, language has left many out.
https://buffer.com/resources/inclusive-language-tech/
“Communication is not what you say, but how it’s heard.”

Intersectionality

Diversity and inclusion in the workplace
Diversity and inclusion in the workplace ESSEC Business School Diversity is a fact. It is also paradoxical. We need to be capable of seeing and hearing differences in order to reap the benefits of diversity. But seeing and hearing differences hone our discriminating reflexes and can also lead to discrimination.
https://www.coursera.org/learn/diversity-inclusion-workplace
Leading With Effective Communication (Inclusive Leadership Training)
What does it take to inspire others, promote a novel idea, or even have a difficult conversation? How can you position yourself as a leader through inclusive communication? How do you know that the message you are intending to send is what is being received?
https://www.edx.org/course/leading-with-effective-communication-inclusive-lea
Gender and Intersectionality
Understanding how gender intersects with various cultural and social concepts is not only essential to understanding gender studies as a scientific discipline, it is also an important part of moving through and experiencing the world as a human being. Understanding gender and intersectionality can help us understand ourselves and the world and culture we live in.
https://www.edx.org/course/gender-and-intersectionality

Books

Hacking Diversity
It is a miniature of physical reality (although virtual is also real), skill level comes with degree of diversity. Right-wing critique always pinpoints on the necessity of caring taxonomy, but data shows we should lean towards the left, as we are far from a society of equality.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45358681-hacking-diversity?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=X1rcWShvWw&rank=1
Inclusive Design Patterns - Coding Accessibility Into Web Design
I've always found the topic of accessiblity an interesting one, and I this book had so many great ideas that I ended up turning it into the basis of a lightning talk at work. I really appreciated that each section started off with typical bad practices, then shows you how to change what you've done to make it fully inclusive.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30816008-inclusive-design-patterns---coding-accessibility-into-web-design
Whistling Vivaldi
"The problem is that the pressure to disprove a stereotype changes what you are about in a situation. It gives you an additional task.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6649312-whistling-vivaldi
The Culture Map
Checked the Index at the back of the book, Belgians are mentioned just once. However, she talks most of understanding several different scales that reChecked the Index at the back of the book, Belgians are mentioned just once.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22085568-the-culture-map

Tools

https://www.racialequitytools.org/
This site is a starting place to learn about the organizational and societal dynamics of racial inclusion and equity. The lens is race, but the lessons are more broadly applicable. Organized for action, it will help you understand how to get started and what a process might be for exploring DEI in your own organization.

Articles

It's not just about race and gender - religious stereotypes need tackling too
The social injustices experienced by women in the creative industries have been brought to the world's attention by the high profile #MeToo and Time's Up campaigns. While issues of race have also been highlighted in the discussion of labour inequality and exclusion with #OscarsSoWhite, the significance of religion has been missed out of the equation.
https://theconversation.com/its-not-just-about-race-and-gender-religious-stereotypes-need-tackling-too-92132
Diversity and inclusion: Stop talking and do your homework
Open source undoubtedly has a diversity problem. In fact, tech has a diversity problem. But this isn't news -  women, people of color, parents, non-technical contributors, gay, lesbian, transgender, and other marginalized people and allies have shared stories of challenge for years.
https://opensource.com/article/17/9/diversity-and-inclusion-innovation

Studies

The semantics of grammatical gender: A cross-cultural study
Although most present-day scholars claim that grammatical gender has no meaning correlates, anecdotal evidence dating back to the Greeks suggests that grammatical gender carries connotative meanings of femininity and masculinity. In the present study native German speakers (tested in Germany) and native Spanish speakers (tested in Mexico) judged 54 high-frequency translation equivalents on semantic differential scales chosen to reflect dimensions of evaluation, potency, and activity.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01068252#page-1
Racial Diversity Improves Group Decision Making In Unexpected Ways, According To Tufts University Research
Research from Tufts University indicates that diverse groups perform better than homogenous groups when making decisions and that this is due largely to dramatic differences in the way whites behave in diverse groups. In the study involving mock juries, panels of whites and blacks deliberated longer, raised more facts about the case, and conducted broader deliberations.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/04/060410162259.htm
Ethnic diversity deflates price bubbles
Markets are central to modern society, so their failures can have devastating effects. Here, we examine a prominent failure: price bubbles. We propose that bubbles are affected by ethnic homogeneity in the market and can be thwarted by diversity.
https://www.pnas.org/content/111/52/18524.abstract