idea

Inclusion is the conscious effort to make sure that everyone feels part of the group, and is allowed to participate.

Some groups tend to be more often excluded in some contexts, such as women at work, introverts in group contexts, or minorities. This creates situations of inequality. For example, women tend to have less promotions than men at work^[1].

Recognizing the situations that are prone to exclusion, the people and groups who tend to be excluded or not to have the same privileges as oneself, and actively facilitating inclusion is called "allyship"^[2].

One way to be an ally is to try to run inclusive meetings for women, introverts and remote workers, by making sure you leave time for introverts to think about the problem before-hands, open participation to remote workers, and protect women against discrimination^[3].

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Biases, conscious or unconscious are an impediment to inclusion: by making assumptions based on other people we might exclude them from a discussion or a group activity.

references

[1]: WSJ / How men and women see the workplace differently^ref: illustrates the difference of opportunities for women and men.

[2]: The anti-oppression network / allyship^ref: presents what allyship is.

[3]: HBR / Run Meetings That Are Fair to Introverts, Women, and Remote Workers^ref presents techniques to fight some assumptions during meetings.