Learning objectives :

• Identify gender biases that influence judgments and behaviors in the workplace, often unconsciously
• Knowing how to respond appropriately to discriminatory or sexist behavior, from the most subtle to the most explicit
• Establishing Your Own Guidelines for Preventing and Addressing Gender Bias in Everyday Life
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Course :

Session 1: Recognizing Collective Biases
Gender biases aren’t limited to those who “do it on purpose.” They are often unconscious, shared, and reinforced by the prevailing culture. This session fosters collective awareness: through a categorization exercise, participants realize just how much their own perceptions are shaped by gender, without even realizing it.

Example of a tool : The behavior classification exercise (matching a list of personality traits or behaviors to "masculine" or "feminine" to reveal one's own implicit biases and measure the gap between one's perceptions and the reality of professional skills).

Case study : Compare one’s own rankings with those of other participants to identify common ground, discuss areas of disagreement, and collectively assess the impact of these perspectives on concrete business decisions (hiring, promotions, public speaking, etc.).

Session 2: Prevention and Response
Recognizing bias is one thing. Knowing how to address it in practice is another. Participants learn to identify biases where they are most difficult to spot: in everyday language, professional terminology, and unspoken codes.

Example of a tool : Job description audit (identifying language, phrasing, and implicit codes that make a job posting de facto appeal more to men than to women, and proposing more inclusive rephrasings).

Case Study : Analyze a job description to identify language biases, work together to revise them to neutralize them, and derive writing guidelines that can be immediately applied in your professional context.

Session 3: Defining Your Boundaries
Everyone has their own limits, which are often implicit. This session makes them explicit: through real-life examples, participants examine their reactions to everyday sexism—ranging from passive-aggressive comments to overtly discriminatory behavior—and leave with personal guidelines for action.

Example of a tool : The GREEN/ORANGE/RED (Acceptable/Passable/Unacceptable) response grid applied to a series of situations involving discrimination and sexism of varying severity, to help develop the ability to assess behavior and decide how to respond.

Case study : Respond individually to each situation, compare your responses with those of the group to identify areas of disagreement, and collectively establish guidelines for addressing everyday sexism.