Amy Diehl, Leanne M. Dzubinski

Glass Walls (eBook, ePUB)

Shattering the Six Gender Bias Barriers Still Holding Women Back at Work

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"The practicality and clarity make this a valuable contribution to collections in academic and public libraries." - Booklist, Starred Review
A new, important, and richly detailed guide to understanding gender bias with practical solutions for leaders, workplace allies, and individual women.
Gender bias is a powerful but hidden force that is still holding women back, keeping them from achieving their full potential and limiting organizations from achieving the creativity, problem solving, and growth that are possible with a diverse workforce.
In this revealing new book, Amy Diehl and Leanne Dzubinski shine a new light on gender bias in the workplace, uncovering the barriers that work like glass walls surrounding women. Through their original research, they have discovered six core factors and multiple subfactors of bias, giving names to some elements for the first time ever.
Their findings and analysis present a new, important, and richly detailed guidebook to understanding gender bias. They reveal:
How male privilege, the bedrock on which gender bias is built, results in a workplace created by men and for men How women encounter disproportionate constraints in that workplace, being expected to play supportive roles to menThe surprising ways in which women experience insufficient support based on genderThe concept of devaluation, and how it tells women they don't belong at workThe troubling ways women face hostility to keep them in their supposed place, merely because of their gender How the combined weight of these barriers leads to acquiescence, when women internalize the obstacles and adapt to the limitationsThe barriers identified, and the subcomponents of each, are destined to become the framework for understanding gender bias. Glass Walls provides a roadmap to shatter barriers holding women back once and for all.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781538170977
• Artikelnr.: 67689936

Autorenporträt

Amy Diehl, PhD, is an award-winning information technology leader and gender equity researcher. Her writing has also appeared in Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and Ms. Magazine. Glass Walls is her first book. Visit her online at amy-diehl.com.
Leanne M. Dzubinski, PhD, is dean of faculty development and global education at Westmont College in California. She is the author of Women in the Mission of the Church: Their Opportunities and Obstacles throughout Christian History and Playing by the Rules: How Women Lead in Evangelical Mission Organizations.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction: The Six Primary Barriers
Chapter 1: Male Privilege
Male GatekeepingBoys' ClubRole IncredulityShunningTokenismGender
BlindnessMasculine LanguageTwo-person Career StructureGlass CliffShattering
Male Privilege: A Diverse OrganizationChapter 2: Disproportionate
Constraints
Constrained Career ChoicesMuted VoicesUnequal StandardsShattering
Disproportionate Constraints: An Equitable OrganizationChapter 3:
Insufficient Support
Lack of Communal ResourcesLack of Mentoring and
SponsoringExclusionUnsupportive LeadershipShattering Insufficient Support:
A Supportive Organization Chapter 4: Devaluation
Office HouseworkDiminishmentBenevolent SexismSalary InequalityCredibility
DeficitShattering Devaluation: A Valuing OrganizationChapter 5: Hostility
DiscriminationWorkplace HarassmentFemale HostilityRetaliationShattering
Hostility: A Welcoming OrganizationChapter 6: Acquiescence
Work-life ConflictSelf-blameSelf-silencingSelf-limited
AspirationsShattering Acquiescence: A Maximizing OrganizationChapter 7:
Gender Bias
When Barriers CombineShattering Gender Bias: An Inclusive Organization
Chapter 8: Taking Charge of Your Own Success
Acknowledgements
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Authors

Rezensionen

Focused on shifting workplace gender bias, Diehl and Dzubinski base organizational behavior on "equalist" concepts replacing the allegedly controversial "feminist." To support the work that creating gender-equitable environments demands, chapters are based on six clear types of gender bias and contain examples of that bias to illuminate the obstacles for even sheltered or reluctant leaders. An instance in the chapter on male privilege illuminates the two-person career structure most clearly witnessed in the expectations tied to first-lady- and clergy-spouse roles. The authors contribute to reader understanding, expanding the use of their work to make it actionable as they conclude each chapter with a segment outlining strategies to guide three types of team members—leaders, allies, self—in creating a sustainably equitable workplace. For example, in the "Devaluation" chapter, the assignment of office "housework" encourages the employee (self) to prepare and then speak up, providing alternatives to the situation. The practicality and clarity make this a valuable contribution to collections in academic and public libraries.