As part of the WE4LEAD Women's Empowerment For LEADership and Equity in Higher Education Institutions project, a CBHE ERASMUS+ project co-funded by the European Union, Isabelle Régner, Vice-President for Gender Equality and Anti-Discrimination at Aix-Marseille Université and WE4LEAD project coordinator, in collaboration with the University of Sousse, co-sponsor of the Work package Formations, trained some 30 future trainers from partner universities in implicit gender bias.
January 25 - 26, 2024, Sousse and January 29 - 30, 2024, Marseille
What are implicit gender biases and how do they affect our behavior and performance? How do they influence hiring and promotion decisions?
Answers to these questions, as well as familiarization with a robust protocol for sensitizing juries to implicit biases derived from social cognition research and its implementation at partner universities, were at the heart of this interactive training course.
All participants were able to become aware of the gender biases embedded in their individual memories by taking the Implicit Association Test.
The training of trainers, who will in turn work in their universities, represents a concrete tool developed within the WE4LEAD project to increase the number of women in top decision-making positions in higher education establishments.
Implicit gender biases are powerful automatisms acquired over time, which are present in most individuals, women and men alike, and which can influence even the most rigorous juries.
Coordinated by Aix-Marseille Université and co-sponsored by the Lebanese University, the WE4LEAD project brings together nine universities from six countries around the Mediterranean: Aix-Marseille University (France), Lebanese University and Antonine University (Lebanon), La Sapienza University of Rome (Italy), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain), Université de Constantine 3 and Université de Mostaganem (Algeria), Université de Tunis-el-Manar and Université de Sousse (Tunisia), as well as an associate partner: the Réseau Francophone des Femmes Responsables dans l'Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche (RESUFF).
Further information on the WE4LEAD project: http: //we4lead.ul.edu.lb/index-fr.html