{"id":24783,"date":"2023-04-10T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pixovr.com\/?p=24783"},"modified":"2023-04-18T12:22:23","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T16:22:23","slug":"vr-can-help-gender-inclusion-content-spotlight-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pixovr.com\/vr-can-help-gender-inclusion-content-spotlight-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Gender Discrimination on the Rise: How VR is Creating True Inclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to a survey conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), almost all of the employers (97%) surveyed provided some form of sexual harassment training to their employees. Additionally, a survey by the National Women’s Law Center found that nearly two-thirds of workers (64%) say their employer has provided some kind of training on gender inclusion.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is great news! But is it making a difference?<\/span><\/p>\n

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is the agency responsible for enforcing federal laws that make it illegal to discriminate against a job applicant or an employee because of the person’s race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, age (40 or older), disability or genetic information. According to the EEOC, in 2020, sex-based discrimination charges made up about 30% of the total charges filed with the agency.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The number of sexual harassment charges and corresponding payouts has gotten worse, not better. The slight drop in numbers in FY2020 and FY2021 is likely due to remote work.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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Additionally, LGBTQ+ discrimination charges are rising rapidly. And the payouts have drastically increased in amount over the past five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This data indicates that the current approach to discrimination training is not effective at solving the problem inherent in every workplace. Companies need a new training approach that changes behaviors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How VR training breaks through discrimination to change behaviors<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Traditional training methods such as with an instructor in a classroom or using video training are severely limited in providing a way for employees to practice gender inclusion. The material may explain that discrimination is illegal, but until a person is put into a real-life situation there is no way of knowing how they will behave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Virtual reality (VR) training goes a level above other training methods by providing employees a safe environment where they can work through discriminatory content and practice inclusion in a judgment-free way. In VR, an immersive, life-like experience can be created where employees can engage in difficult conversations with people who are different from them. 

A PwC comparison study of using VR for soft skills training<\/a> demonstrated that those that learned using VR were four times more focused and could be trained four times faster. Perhaps most important for gender inclusion training is that the study showed that those using VR felt almost four times more emotionally connected to the content and almost three times more confident to apply the skills they learned. Basically, the study proved that VR is a powerful training method for teaching critical leadership, communication and interpersonal skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

VR Gender Inclusion training is available now<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

VR Gender Inclusion content<\/a> is gaining in popularity as companies seek new ways to address this highly-charged training topic. The training content includes many scenarios where employees can observe discrimination and engage in conversations to remediate. The unique and powerful feature of this particular training is that the interactions in VR can be replayed where the employee can see their own body language and their words during the interaction to identify potential issues they need to work on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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