Below you will find resources Dairy Girl Network has compiled that will be helpful to farmers and industry members on the topics of diversity and inclusion.

*Resources will be updated as often as possible. Do you have a resource you think DGN should share? Email the website/link/form/video/article/etc to us at contact@dairygirlnetwork.com with the subject Include Resource. All resources are subject to DGN approval*

Awareness:

• Articles
  • How Microaggressions Can Affect Wellbeing In The Workplace
  • Social Identities and Systems of Oppression
  • Understanding oppression and “isms” as a system
  • A Quick Guide to the -isms and -phobias
  • Racial Equity Tools Glossary
  • Closing the Gender Gap in Agriculture
  • Women in Agriculture Closing the Gender Gap for Development
  • Going the Distance for Diversity and Inclusion in Agriculture
• Videos
  • The Danger of a Single Story
  • Color Blind or Color Brave
  • Unconscious Bias at Work — Making the Unconscious Conscious
• Books
  • Is Everyone Really Equal?
  • So You Want To Talk About Race
  • How to Be an Antiracist
  • No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement
  • Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People
• Worksheets
  • Social Identity Worksheet
• Activities
  • Implicit Association Tests
  • Interrupting Bias: Calling Out vs. Calling In
  • Unconscious Bias and Understanding Blind Spots

Allyship:

• Articles
  • What is Allyship?
  • Empowering Female Farmers to Feed the World
  • How to Be an Ally in the Workplace: 13 Ways to Do It
  • 10 Ways to Be an Ally & a Friend
  • Be a Better Ally
  • How Men Become Better Allies to Women
  • Ally, Advocate, Mentor, Sponsor – How To Be One, How To Get One, And Why You Should
  • Don’t Just Mentor Women and People of Color. Sponsor Them.
• Videos
  • Allyship in Practice
  • 3 Ways to be a Better Ally in the Workplace
  • BeCOME an Ally : How to achieve gender equity
  • Want a more just world? Be an unlikely ally
• Activities
  • What kind of Ally are you?

On Farm Best Practices:

• Human Resources
  • HR Manual – talks about inclusion, hiring best practices
  • HR Templates – job description worksheets
  • Hiring Tips for Dairy Farms

Do you have a resource you think DGN should share? Email the website/link/form/video/article/etc to us at contact@dairygirlnetwork.com with the subject Include Resource.