Pecha Kucha: Gender Identity (PowerPoint Presentation Sample)

Transcript Transcript Slide 1: Title Slide Slide 2: Introduction The number of women working in healthcare has increased over the last few years. Although these numbers are growing, women working in healthcare are significantly underrepresented in healthcare settings. They widely deal with identity matters as their gender puts them in a unique position. In situations wherein the majority of the population of emergency medical technicians is male, women working in healthcare are likely to grapple with such issues. Gender discrimination in such environments may thus result in the increased stress levels of females and a sense of social disconnection in the females. It will attempt to determine whether the experiences of women working in healthcare as emergency medical technicians are similar to what research has been observing. The presentation will incorporate personal narratives to more clearly express the challenges that these healthcare providers have to endure and their resilience. Slide 3: Challenges of Hostile Gender Climates Women working in healthcare will deal with the rotating landscape of their identity, sometimes feeling the burden of deciding to choose one or more identities definitively yet reconciling them all. They face both disguised and precise kinds of discrimination, which may involve microaggressions and gender stereotyping. These can make them feel excluded and unmanaged. As a result, women working in healthcare may experience reasons to feel misjudged or undermined and, subsequently, find a significant challenge in interactions. Emergency medical technicians with majorities of male populations may be at a disadvantage regarding finances, programs, and male support systems designed to meet their needs. Women working in healthcare can feel very lonely and out of place when they are faced with colleagues who are not familiar with their uniqueness. They can never clearly identify their roots. Hostile gender climates may result in escalated mental stress, anxiety, and well-being concerns, hindering their overall focus. Slide 4: Research on Discrimination Impact Studies reveal that the subjective encountered bias is crucial in terms of determining the mental health of females. The repetition of disparity can be some reason for somebody to have a higher level of disbelief toward others, ranging from friends to patients. A female can often have an increased feeling of exclusion or ostracization from their actual gender roles. Discrimination breeds a sense of estrangement from friends and groups, which hurts social patterns and the organization of life. Among the most rooting factors of discrimination can be a decrease in self-confidence and self-perceived and, as a result, a potent negative perception. An emotional uproar accompanies protest – one becomes sad, or helpless. Slide 5: Personal Encounter with Gender Profiling The one day in a healthcare facility that I will never forget was the afternoon I found myself being gender profiled. Amidst all the diverse patients, I was walking to my destination, and a colleague stopped me and demanded my identification. I was generally abused. This made me hurt, shocked, and feel I wanted to blame my gender for the reality that I fell into. Upon the realization, it was the most isolating moment of my life, given my descent that appeared out of place from most of the male colleagues. At that moment, I felt anger, frustration, and sadness, and they were terrible for my psychological well-being, and I no longer got a sense of belonging. Thus, this scenario revealed to me the bitter truth about the hurdles in life that women working in healthcare have to overcome when dealing with gender hostility within healthcare establishments. Slide 6: Aligning Personal Experience with Research Since my female personality is a complex blend of two different identities, I try harder to find out who I am in a society where the status quo is male dominated and pressure to conform. For instance, Perkins (2014) identifies the "identity see-saw," which implies that women working in healthcare are on the way to defining their identities. Expectations from the society often distort this process. I am concerned about my own gender bias experiences, which fit into the picture of showing a higher probability of a privileged group being intolerant and marginalizing. West and Maffini's study (2019) points towards the more psychic harm that women working in healthcare undergo as a result of being on the receiving end of gender discrimination. Like the studies showing the obstacles to belonging felt by female emergency medical technicians, my own experience of alienation and disconnection is not only personal but symbolizes a broader social reality. Placing one's personal experiences alongside the performance grid makes it possible to spot the diversity of female identity formation within spaces that, for the most part, are a single-gender creative ground. Slide 7: Identity Struggles Women working in healthcare are challenged to unify their development of a strong sense of self with the gender experiences they draw from all backgrounds. Usually, in society, there are social pressures about confirming/accepting particular gender identities, and this has an impact on the social and psychological life of and leads to internal conflict and confusion. Bigender individuals are usually put in the "identity dilemma," which is the state of uncertainty created by the situation where they cannot choose their self-consciousness or the expectations of society to be noticed by the majority. Emergency medical technician environments, in particular, can make gender identities harder to manage, mainly when so many providers are grouped. This kind of environment reinforces the dominant male world because of a lack of experience with other genders. The idea is that female or bigender individuals' perceptions and expressions of identity can be altered in a peer group environment, even more so in the case of predominantly male settings. Through recounting experiences of conflicting identities, females raise the issue of their complex experiences and want a sense of belonging. Slide 8: Peer Marginalization and Gender Identity Women working in healthcare are usually confronted with the peer's perception that they are not designed for specific roles. Even though their national identity is valid, they feel isolated from others. Among peers of a single gender, society may expect bigender to match one gender; therefore, inducing inner conflict becomes difficult. While in the healthcare facility, they may struggle to identify which gender traditions to follow or how to relate the information about their gender to their peers. Marginalization of a person's gender identity can affect the way they interact with others and form their friendships, therefore deepening the sense of being solitary and abandoned. Maintaining diverse social identities will be difficult when co-foundation is reinforced by colleagues with static gender categories that do not reflect female reality. Highlighting their personal stories of peer marginalization can be a medium to expose the importance of more awareness and empathy towards all who differ and live together in diverse settings. Slide 9: Impact of Marginalization Some of psychological impacts as a result of the marginalization of someone based on their gender identity can be profound in that they include stress, anxiety, and even feelings of inadequacy. Marginalization leads to individuals feeling that they do not fit into society and are not seen as part of a team, and thus, their well-being and self-esteem are affected. Marginalization experienced continuously leads to internal conflict and the deliberate seeking of a place in the ever-changing world sourced from the representation of multiple gender identities. Women working in healthcare may be haunted by previously seemingly inconsequential emotions, such as anger, sadness, or frustration, due to persistent discrimination. Struggles can reduce the likelihood of interactions and bonding with colleagues, spawning superficial connections. At the same time, the ramifications of discrimination can be preserved beyond emergency medical technician roles, impacting future life, friendships, and career paths and sometimes even dictating the level of life accomplishment. Slide 10: Performance Challenges in Hostile Climates Women working in healthcare who find a bad gender bias climate in healthcare facilities cannot succeed in performance as well as the social environment due to constant harassment. Hostile and threatening conditions in healthcare facilities often result in the lack of women working in healthcare engagement in emergency medical technician activities and organizations. The performance environment can cause a distancing effect, reducing the community of females, the performance of these young patients, and their motivation. The hostile gender spaces may make it harder for women working in healthcare to grow, which sets them up for limited achievements. Discrimination and marginalization can cause women working in healthcare to perform poorly; this will, in turn, lead to their inability to succeed. Women working in healthcare often encounter additional roadblocks to acquiring knowledge in the instance of prevailing gender tensions, such as a lack of backing and a narrow selection of individualized resources designed to fit their unique needs. Slide 11: Personal Impact on Involvement Females tend to be afraid to talk to others and not to get relatively long-term involvements with healthcare organizations and events, worried that they may not be accepted. Social networking appears to be the first to be affected. This is very often associated with a hostile gender directed towards isolated social behavior. Shared experience of discrimination tends to break the healthcare providers enthusiasm for the c...