Opciónate teaches staff and management of the Canary Islands Oceanic Platform (PLOCAN) how to detect and avoid them.
Prejudices, stereotypes and gender biases are an unconscious part of our thoughts, and can affect our daily work, teamwork and selection processes. To learn how to detect and eliminate them, the director of Opciónate, Ana Lydia Fernández-Layos, gave several training sessions to the staff of the Canary Islands Oceanic Platform (PLOCAN) throughout the month of October.
Through practical and very graphic examples, participants have learned how these biases manifest themselves quite naturally because they are very internalized. Recognizing them and ensuring that they do not influence is crucial to avoid inequalities and discrimination that negatively affect women, since, in fact, they condition personnel selection processes, promotion in the professional career or functional relationships. These prejudices and stereotypes can occur, among others, due to affinity, cultural and gender factors.
Through practical dynamics and with a participatory methodology, Fernández-Layos promoted the reflection and debate on the impact of machismo in daily work, providing them with tools with which to avoid these biases in the future. As an association specialized in human rights, Opciónate provides its training from a gender and diversity perspective, with an intercultural and intersectional perspective, thus contributing to the creation of a more just and inclusive society.
