{"id":69,"date":"2021-08-16T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T09:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/snes-edi\/?p=69"},"modified":"2021-08-23T10:15:59","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T09:15:59","slug":"edi-reading-sharron-kuznesof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/snes-edi\/2021\/08\/16\/edi-reading-sharron-kuznesof\/","title":{"rendered":"EDI Reading: Sharron Kuznesof"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As reference requests for graduates appear in our inboxes, I thought I\u2019d share this one page poster on \u201c<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/snes-news.ncl.ac.uk\/c\/1MsLDXUlsjPTAsQSPQa3Z\">Avoiding Gender Bias in Reference Writing<\/a><\/strong>\u201d.\u00a0 I find it a useful aide memoire when writing a reference and reducing gender-biased language that might (unconsciously) creep into my letters.\u00a0 We know to \u2018emphasise accomplishments\u2019 and \u2018avoid giving personal information\u2019 in our references (which are highlighted in the document).\u00a0 However, based on research that underpins the content of this poster I\u2019m also avoiding the use of adjectives such as \u2018hard-working\u2019, \u2018diligent\u2019 and \u2018conscientious\u2019 to describe women graduates which perpetuate stereotypes and can be potentially damaging to their selection. If you find yourself describing your women graduates in this way, \u201c<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/snes-news.ncl.ac.uk\/c\/1MsRxZBqKnlLrk1H6Zr60\">Avoiding Gender Bias in Reference Writing<\/a><\/strong>\u201d has a useful list of alternative \u2018adjectives to include\u2019 such as \u2018accomplished\u2019, \u2018knowledgeable\u2019 and \u2018resourceful\u2019. \u00a0Check it out\u2026!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As reference requests for graduates appear in our inboxes, I thought I\u2019d share this one page poster on \u201cAvoiding Gender Bias in Reference Writing\u201d.\u00a0 I find it a useful aide memoire when writing a reference and reducing gender-biased language that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/snes-edi\/2021\/08\/16\/edi-reading-sharron-kuznesof\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10323,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/snes-edi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/snes-edi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/snes-edi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/snes-edi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10323"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/snes-edi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/snes-edi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/snes-edi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/snes-edi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/snes-edi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/snes-edi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}