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Workshop III: Improving the Workplace Environment

Author(s) -

Irvy Ma Gledhill,

Gillian Butcher

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

aip conference proceedings

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Conference proceedings

eISSN - 1551-7616

pISSN - 0094-243X

DOI - 10.1063/1.4937645

Subject(s) - disadvantage , work environment , diversity (politics) , work (physics) , working environment , public relations , sociology , engineering ethics , engineering , political science , mechanical engineering , anthropology , law

Research has shown that companies with more diversity and a better workplace perform better. So what makes a good workplace in physics, where women and men can work to their full potential? In the Improving the Workplace Environment workshop of the 5th IUPAP International Conference on Women in Physics, participants heard about initiatives taking place in Canada, the UK, Japan, and India to improve the workplace environment and shared good practices from around the world. Some of the less tangible aspects of the workplace environment, such as unconscious bias and accumulation of advantage and disadvantage, were explored.Peer-reviewedPublisher VersionWomen in Physics, Waterloo, Canad

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