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How Do Your Workers Feel about Sexual Harassment? Ask Them

If your business is serious about eliminating the risk of sexual harassment — and it should be — you need to approach the problem comprehensively. This means recognizing that sexual harassment is part of a continuum of interconnected behaviors that range from gender bias to incivility to legally actionable assault. All these kinds of misconduct should be addressed collectively because sexual harassment is far more likely in organizations that experience offenses on the “less severe” end of the spectrum than...

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Equality & Diversity, Fighting Stereotypes & Breaking Biases, Gender Communication Techniques, Office Politics, Sexism

Why It’s So Tough for Women to Find Male Mentors in the Workplace

A Harvard Business Review research report concluded that the primary factor “keeping women under the glass ceiling” is “the absence of male advocacy.” The report found that high-performing women simply are not getting the male mentorship they need to reach the top because they are not interacting in business contexts on a one-on-one basis with the senior men in their organizations. Without such interactions, male leaders lack the familiarity, knowledge, and incentive to sponsor women and advocate for their career...

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Equality & Diversity, Fighting Stereotypes & Breaking Biases, Sexism

Cautionary Notes When Reading “How to Raise a Feminist Son”

Claire Cain Miller’s recent article in the New York Times about raising a feminist son has attracted a good deal of attention. Without doubt, the article contains much sensible advice: parents should provide boys with positive role models, call out biased stereotypes, and stop conduct that is demeaning, intolerant, or disrespectful. But the article also contains a number of mistaken or misguided ideas. Let’s look at five of them. Is Raising a “Feminist” Son a Good Idea? Miller attempts to limit the...

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Kellyanne Conway: A New Target for Sexist Attacks

Kellyanne Conway is unquestionably a strong, confident, and highly accomplished woman. She is the first woman to manage a successful Presidential campaign and is now Counselor to the President of the United States. She is also a highly polarizing figure. On the one hand, she is regarded as “the new hero of the post feminism era”; a woman who “has exposed the hypocrisy of a [leftist] crusade more concerned about political ideology than with supporting strong women in positions of...

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Sexual Harassment in the Fast Lane

Imagine yourself in your dream job. You love your job, and you are using most of your skills. You have learned a lot, and you are recognized for your contributions. But, then, your manager seems interested in you, and it soon takes the form of sexual overtures. You politely say that you are not interested, but the overtures continue and affect your comfort in your workplace. You finally work up the confidence to report your concerns to management, and you learn...

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How to Deal With Gaslighting at Work

The term “gaslighting” comes from the classic 1944 movie, Gaslight, starring Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, and Joseph Cotton. In Gaslight, Boyer tries to drive his wife, Bergman, crazy by turning the gaslights in their home off and on, while denying this is happening. Gaslighting is now widely used to describe when someone is trying (consciously or unconsciously) to make you doubt your own memory, judgment, feelings, and connection to reality. When women are told they are imagining sexism, this is straightforward...

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Our Gendered Election

Among the most disturbing aspects of the recent Presidential election was the frequency and hostility of the attacks on Hillary Clinton because she is a woman. Gender stereotypes and the biases that flow from them are pervasive in our society. But prior to this campaign, most business leaders, diversity officers, and mainstream commentators would have said that women are discriminated against in their pursuit of career advancement because of unconscious gender stereotypes and biases — reflexive, automatic, and unintentional assumptions...

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5 Ways to Deal With Difficult Coworkers and Reduce the Career Risks of Workplace Conflict

Disagreements in the workplace are of various sorts. One with a particularly high risk of harm to your career involves arguing with a coworker about how to perform a task, achieve an objective, or manage people. Such a disagreement can disrupt or destroy important personal relationships — and with them, valuable career advancement opportunities. You can substantially reduce this danger, however, by following a few ground rules for dealing with difficult coworkers. 1. Know that workplace conflict is different for women When...

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Can Body Language Trump the Message?

With the second presidential debate behind us, we've now seen the Democratic and Republican candidates debate in the town hall style. This allowed them to use the stage freely and for us to watch them respond to questions. No matter what your political views, if you watched the debate, you undoubtedly have your own views about their performance. We found the body language that Clinton and Trump used when sharing the stage to provide powerful messages for women seeking to break through bias. Clinton...

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What Do Powerful Women Have in Common?

We were asked this exact question in our interview with Eleanor Beaton at the Fierce Women Leadership Podcast. Find out where this and other hot topics went in the podcast, downloadable here....

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