Word of the Month: Equity*
- An approach that ensures that everyone has access to the same opportunities.
- A process that begins by acknowledging that unequal starting place and works to correct and address the imbalance.
- Ensures that all people have the opportunity to grow, contribute, and develop, regardless of their identity.
*(Tan, 2019)
What it means to me...
"As a Kurdish man who is a nurse educator, I hope to inspire new nurses to bring their unique talents and perspectives to nursing practice, while upholding the highest standards of compassionate patient care. Having more male voices with diverse background as nurse educators and mentors will help create a more inclusive work environment that leverages the skills and experiences of nurses from all walks of life. I believe that our gender or ethnicity does not define the care we can provide but diversity definitely can enrich the field of nursing and allow us to better serve our patient population, and communities."
(printable flyer to hang in your area)
Click on a word to reveal the definition.
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- Giving equitable access to everyone regardless of human ability and experience.
- How organizations encompass and celebrate the characteristics and talents that each individual brings to the organization.
- Representation for all.
(Tan, 2019)
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- The continuous effort to use your power to address and repair harm to individuals and groups who do not carry power where you do.
(Cook Ross, 2022)
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- Tendency to favor one group over another; biases can be favorable or unfavorable and can be unconscious (implicit or unintentional) or conscious (explicit or intentional).
(Marcelin et al., 2019)
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The emotional and experiential outcome of inclusion. All humans share the need to be taken in, cared for, protected, and valued by a group, community, or organization. Belonging gives people a voice in a community and encourages and enables them to contribute to it and expect support from it.
* National Association of Independent Schools. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging. Retrieved March 10, 2023, from https://www.nais.org/articles/pages/diversity-equity-inclusion-and-belo…
What it means to me...
(featured March 2023)
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- Committing to lifelong, ongoing self-reflection
- Continuously evaluating one’s own behaviors, beliefs, and identities
- Determining how potential biases and assumptions may surface when collaborating with an individual of a different background.
(Marcelin et al., 2019)
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- The presence of differences within a given setting. This may include gender, race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, place of practice, and practice type.
- Organizational diversity requires examining the makeup of a group to ensure that multiple perspectives are represented.
(Tan, 2019)
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- An approach that ensures that everyone has access to the same opportunities.
- A process that begins by acknowledging that unequal starting place and works to correct and address the imbalance.
- Ensures that all people have the opportunity to grow, contribute, and develop, regardless of their identity.
(Tan, 2019)
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- Differences between groups in health coverage, access to care, and quality of care.
(Ndugga & Artiga 2021)
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- The intentional, ongoing effort to ensure that diverse people with different identities are able to fully participate in all aspects of the work of an organization.
- The way that diverse individuals are valued as respected members and are welcomed in an organization and/or community.
(Tan, 2019)
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Large‐scale systematic oppression of a target group by society's institutions, such as government, education, and culture, which can all contribute or reinforce the oppression of marginalized social groups while elevating dominant social groups. (Examples: gender pay gap, confederate flags)
(Adamakos, 2021)
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- Those excluded from mainstream social, economic, educational, and/or cultural life.
- Examples of marginalized populations include, but are not limited to, groups excluded due to race, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, physical ability, language, and/or immigration status.
- Marginalization occurs due to unequal power relationships between social groups.
(Sevelius et al., 2020)
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- Small daily insults and indignities perpetrated against marginalized or oppressed people because of their affiliation with that marginalized or oppressed group.
(Oluo, 2019, p. 169)
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- An oversimplified, fixed, and widely held belief about an entire group of people; stereotypes may not always be accurate, especially when they lead to judgments applied to individuals within that group.
(Marcelin et al., 2019)
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- A pervasive set of societal and interpersonal practices within and outside health care institutions that foster discriminatory practices to create systematic disadvantage and health inequities in a racial group.
(Doubeni et al., 2021)
