Collaborative Leaders

Purposefully Build Partnerships and Networks to create EDI results

Demonstrate a Commitment to coalitions among diverse groups and perspectives aimed at learning to improve service

  • Need to make an effort to bring people up

Mobilize Knowledge

Navigate Socio-Political Environments

  • Need to bring people with different levels of power

Developing EDI-Informed Coalitions

Ivy Lynn Bourgeault, University of Ottawa & Canadian Health Workforce Network

Just as EDI considerations inform leadership capabilities within one’s discipline, group or organization, it also translates to the development of coalitions with others, the fourth D in the LEADS Framework. Collaborative leaders develop coalitions to create EDI awareness and achieve EDI goals within and across disciplines, groups and organizations. Partnerships are purposively built to create these EDI results with notable time and attention paid to create ongoing relationships of trust. This may involve coming to terms with broken trust from past interactions, a key lesson from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action. Collaborative leaders demonstrate a commitment to coalitions with diverse groups and perspectives aimed at learning how to improve service accessibility and cultural safety and acceptability. EDI knowledge within and across organizations is mobilized towards those ends. A purposeful effort to bring people with different voices, experiences, and forms of power to the table and mentoring up, within and across organizations helps to navigate complex socio-political and cultural environments.

For Women of colour in Medicine, the Challenges Extend Beyond Education $

a post by Jessica Yang on how societal structures influence the experiences of Women of Colour, from the medical school application process and beyond. The post includes an interview with Uche Blackstock, M.D. about some of her experiences as a Black woman in emergency medicine in the United State

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Jacqui Dyer and Natalie Creary on race, mental health and BlackThrive

Jacqui Dyer and Nathalie Creary are two Black women working to dismantle systems of oppression in relation to mental health for Black folks in the United Kingdom. In this podcast, Jacqui Dyer says their work is founded on: “Having adult conversations with those who have a growth mindset, not a fixed mindset (after 11:45).” This is the difficultyet necessary work that is required within an anti-racism framework.

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Reclaiming Power and Place: The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

The National Inquiry’s Final Report reveals that persistent and deliberate human and Indigenous rights violations and abuses are the root cause behind Canada’s staggering rates of violence against Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA people. The two volume report calls for transformative legal and social changes to resolve the crisis that has devastated Indigenous communities across the country.

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White Fragility: Why its so hard for white people to talk about race

Dr. Robin DiAngelo participates in a panel discussion at the University of Manitoba. The panellists explore the violence of ongoing settler colonialism and whiteness in relation to health and well being in Canada. Dr. Anderson speaks of the myth of “colour blindness” in Canada because of Universal Health Care in Canada we treat everyone the same despite evidence of great disparities in health between white settlers and Indigenous peoples and people of colour

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Eleven things not to say to your female colleagues

The examples in the article demonstrate that sexism remains an issue in the headache medicine workplace and our professional societies. The authors hope these examples make readers more aware of problematic behavior, and give them ideas about how to intervene.

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Men’s Fear of Mentoring in the #MeToo Era — What’s at Stake for Academic Medicine? $

Women in medicine experience sexual harassment and discrimination, with some men fearing mentorship due to potential false allegations. This deprives women of career opportunities and perpetuates gender inequality. To address this, self-reflection and support are needed to create an inclusive environment and promote women's career advancement in medicine.

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Got yourself an all-white panel? Just click on rentaminority.com

The website "Rentaminority.com" satirizes the superficial attitude to diversity by offering to "rent" minorities for events. It drew unexpected attention, emphasizing the need of true diversity initiatives. The paper emphasizes the significance of openly and substantively addressing diversity concerns, moving beyond tokenism.

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The graph shows the percentage of questions asked by women during seminars. They concluded that when a man asked the first question, women asked fewer questions compared to when a woman asked the first question.

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The Lancet Group’s commitments to gender equity and diversity $

The Lancet Group is committed to increasing diversity and inclusion in research and publishing, and in particular to increasing the representation of women and colleagues from low-income and middle-income countries among our editorial advisers, peer reviewers, and authors. The Lancet Group is committed to no all-male panels (“manels”).

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New Study: Almost Two-Thirds of Professional Event Speakers Are Male

Bizzabo analyzed event data from thousands of events over the past seven years and discovered that events still have a long way to go when it comes to gender diversity. The report analyzed the gender diversity of more than 60,000 event speakers over a seven-year period, from 2013 to 2019. The study spanned 58 countries across five continents, 45 industries and thousands of the world’s largest professional events.

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CAUT welcomes settlement on equity targets for Canada Research Chairs Program

The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) is welcoming the announcement that an agreement has been reached to ensure more robust equity targets, transparency, and accountability within the Canada Research Chairs (CRC) Program. The settlement builds upon recent government changes to enhance equity, diversity and inclusion in the CRC program, and caps a process started in 2003 by eight academics who, with the support of CAUT, filed a complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Commission over the program’s failure to reflect the diversity of Canada’s university researchers.

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12 Steps to Close the Gender Pay Gap by 2025

The issue of the gender pay gap is complex and the product of many contributing factors. Closing it will require a multi-level strategy. This is why the Equal Pay Coalition has compiled the following 12 steps. While none of these efforts will close the gap on their own, we believe that change is possible, and that in concert they will contribute to our goal of a 0% gap by 2025.

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