Wheel of Privilege and Power

Featured image, wheel of power –Anti-Racism Strategy 2.0 (2021-2024) IRCC – Change management
See also – EAF Berlin, Diversity in Leadership

“The wheel of privilege and power provides an example of a tool adapted by diversity, equity and inclusion networks at (IRCC) that can be used to identify intersectional locations of power. Identifying the forms power takes allows us to design systems in different ways to correct power imbalance or to level the proverbial playing field.”

(Canadian Government, anti-racism strategy 2021-2024)

Test your bias

• Identify your power and privilege

• Harvard implicit association test

• Unconscious bias training

• Open Life Sciences Ally training

Tools

• Are your job adds gender-fair? test with the GenderDecoder (TUM)

• Measure your implicit bias (Harvard University)

• Where do you sit on the wheel of power (Canadian context – parameters are up for discussion/adjustment)

• Who is stealing the show? Use one of many apps to detect “Manterruption”

• Mansplaining, Manterrupting & Bropropriating: Gender Bias and the Pervasive Interruption of Women (U Michigan)

• Institute of Gender in Medicine (GiM, Charité-Universitätsmedizin, Berlin),  DiMIS – Diversity Minimal Item Set