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Training won't end discrimination, we have to hold people responsible

  • Written by Lucy Taksa, Professor and Associate Dean, Macquarie University
Training won't end discrimination, we have to hold people responsible'Unconscious bias' might be a cop out.Shutterstock

Efforts to address discrimination and lack of diversity in the workplace often focus on unconscious bias and unconscious bias training.

While this sounds fine, it can be problematic in offering the perpetrators an out.

Unconscious bias is bias we are unaware of. It is said to be outside of our...

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