Thread by @PulmCrit

live tweeting: "Time's Up: Eliminating Sexual Harassment & Gender Inequity in Healthcare" by @SharonneHayes

Women may have different leadership styles than men. Countries led by women have had fewer issues with COVID-19 🔥
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Women are here to stay in healthcare!
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The fact that this was published, in multiple editions, proves that more women need to be involved in publishing.
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Gender harassment is more pervasive than overt acts of sexual coercion.
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Busting Myth #1: Sexual harassment doesn't just happen to a few women - it's pervasive. And generally unreported.
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Busting myth #2: It's not just a few "bad apples." Rather, organizational climates allow harassment ("structural sexism"?)
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Busting myth #3: The impact is very real, in multiple dimensions. Sexual harassment is a severe occupational hazard which (within the research realm) constitutes research misconduct (potentially meriting defunding researchers).
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UVM is a signatory at Time's Up Healthcare.
@UVMMedCenter

Policies and training can help staff deal with sexual harassment. Good intentions aren't enough. Centralizing processes within an organization can help as well.
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Incidents should be investigated systematically. Implementing a system to deal with reporting at Mayo led to a temporary surge in reports. Internally *posting* data changed the institutional culture, by demonstrating that incidents were taken seriously.
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Most reports were substantiated, largely relating to male physicians in positions of power. Mayo is tracking out sexual harassment the way everyone else is tracking COVID.
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Harassment is a marker for other dimensions of inequity (e.g. under-representation in leadership).
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*Equity* is analogous to tailoring heart failure therapy specific to different genders. Alternatively, *equality* would involve treating every patient exactly the same way.
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Mothership Penality: Women may be less likely to be hired or offered a high salary.
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No more #mantels! (shoutout to @iwashyna)
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- Recognizing unconscious biases.
- Avoid the competence-vs-likability dilemma.
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We have a long ways to go. (My apologies for barely scratching the surface of this incredible talk)
#RBGForever