{"id":7069,"date":"2018-11-15T08:00:22","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T13:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/?p=7069"},"modified":"2018-11-14T17:46:35","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T22:46:35","slug":"intersectionality-and-inclusivity-in-the-workplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2018\/11\/15\/intersectionality-and-inclusivity-in-the-workplace\/","title":{"rendered":"Intersectionality and Inclusivity in the Workplace"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Intersectionality is a term frequently used in many different contexts, from social movements to academic research to everyday speech.<\/span>\u00a0A recent article<\/a> in <\/span>The<\/span><\/i> New York Times\u00a0<\/span><\/i>explores how intersectionality — defined as\u00a0\u201cthe complex and cumulative way different forms of discrimination like racism, sexism and classism overlap and affect people” — influences men and women of color in the workplace.<\/span><\/p>\n

The article draws from a recent non-profit <\/span>study<\/span><\/a>\u00a0surveying 1,600 participants in workplaces ranging from corporations to higher education.\u00a0Most respondents said they were \u201chighly on guard at work,\u201d which often meant they actively repressed traits others might perceive as frightening or intimidating. For example, they arrived early to meetings so they would be seated when others arrived in order to appear less threatening.<\/span><\/p>\n

While the majority of workers in the study reported this need to be “on guard” to protect themselves against racial and gender bias, the types of stereotypes various groups face are not the same. For example,\u00a0African-American women tend to face the stereotype of \u201cthe angry black woman,” while Latinas face stereotypes about being \u201ctoo emotional or too wedded to their families.\u201d Sociologist\u00a0Yung-Yi Diana Pan<\/a>\u00a0notes that Asian-Americans are sometimes identified as \u201cbeing workhorses without creativity\u201d and \u201cpassive and acquiescent,\u201d and this may lead to fewer promotions according to a recent report<\/a> by the Ascend Foundation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Part of the problem, according\u00a0to sociologist\u00a0<\/span>Lata Murti<\/span><\/a>, is that women of color are constantly compared to professional white women — the “invisible norm.” So, what is the solution? Latasha Woods, brand manager at Proctor & Gamble argue it starts with leadership:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need leadership that truly cares about inclusion \u2014 a lot care about diversity, but how do you foster inclusion? People spend a lot of time on what they know the boss cares about. If they see the boss cares about inclusion they will too.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Intersectionality is a term frequently used in many different contexts, from social movements to academic research to everyday speech.\u00a0A recent article in The New York Times\u00a0explores how intersectionality — defined as\u00a0\u201cthe complex and cumulative way different forms of discrimination like racism, sexism and classism overlap and affect people” — influences men and women of color […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2020,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,55,13,85,14],"tags":[39112,641,123,39114,11306,4048,39110,778,39115,39111,17586,4225,105180,82,1528,176,407],"class_list":["post-7069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-gender","category-inequality","category-politics","category-race","tag-culture","tag-diversity","tag-ethnicity","tag-gender","tag-gender-inequality","tag-inclusion","tag-inequality","tag-intersectionality","tag-politics","tag-race","tag-racial-bias","tag-racial-inequality","tag-racial-stereotypes","tag-racism","tag-sexism","tag-sexuality","tag-stereotypes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2020"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7069"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7075,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7069\/revisions\/7075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}