Spot the Bias: Ghana STEM Workshop Quiz

During a staff meeting, Dr. Mensah only addresses the male lecturers when discussing research opportunities, rarely making eye contact with female colleagues.

• Microinequity

• Microaggression

• Microinvalidation

• No bias

A senior lecturer jokes, “Women in engineering must be very tough, or maybe a little stubborn.”

• Microaggression

• Microinvalidation

• Microinequity

• No bias

The only female student in a computer science class is consistently assigned the role of “note-taker” rather than group leader.

• Microaggression

• Microinequity

• Microinvalidation

• No bias

During a faculty workshop, a male professor interrupts his female colleague multiple times, dismissing her points as “emotional.”

• Microaggression

• Microinvalidation

• Microinequity

• No bias

A staff member says to a female staff member or female student, “Are you sure you can handle this project? It’s very technical.”

• Microaggression

• Microinvalidation

• Microinequity

• No bias

A student shares her experience of being the only girl in a lab, and the lecturer responds, “I think you are overthinking it. No one notices these things.”

• Microinvalidation

• Microaggression

• Microinequity

• No bias

A lecturer praises a male student for his “natural talent in maths” but tells a female student she’s “hardworking.”

• Microinequity

• Microaggression

• Microinvalidation

• No bias

A senior or management staff member says, “There are no barriers for women in science at this university anymore.”

• Microinvalidation

• Microinequity

• Microaggression

• No bias

Two colleagues, one male and one female, apply for a leadership training. Only the male is selected without explanation, though both are qualified.

• Microinequity

• Microinvalidation

A male lecturer jokes with his male students after class about how “girls always leave engineering for accounting.”

• Microaggression

• Microinequity

• No bias

• Microinvalidation