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Want to know more?
Here are a few good places to start.
Here are a few good places to start.
Fox, C. (2017) Stop Fixing Women: Why Building Fairer Workplaces is Everybody's Business
Focuses on the systemic issues of a work-life system designed with men in mind. Offers solutions for men that move us away from 'fixing' women. Argues these changes will benefit everyone.
hooks, b. (2013) Dig Deep: Beyond Lean In
A critique of Sandberg's Lean In; contends that race is "an invisible category in Sandberg’s corporate fantasy world" and that more wealthy, white women at the top is not enough to help economically and racially marginalised women.
Kalev, A., F. Dobbin & E. Kelly (2006) Best Practices or Best Guesses? Assessing the Efficacy of Corporate Affirmative Action and Diversity Policies
Highlights the importance of organisational responsibility for change and shows how little 'diversity training' schemes are worth. See also, the brilliant Rent-A-Minority site by Arwa Mahdawi.
Kennedy, T. (2018) Lean In and Tell Me a (True) Story: Sheryl Sandberg’s Revision of Feminist History (preview available here)
Argues that 'Lean In' tries to erase feminism as a collective political movement and marginalises working-class women’s experiences of gendered oppression.
O'Neil, D. & M. Hopkins (2015) The impact of gendered organizational systems on women’s career advancement
Picks apart notions about women's inequality at work being based on individual characteristics such as 'confidence'. Instead, argues: "Let’s stop trying to fix the women, and fix the system instead."
Saini, A. (2018) Inferior
Debunks myths about the supposedly 'natural' differences between the behaviours of men and women. See also Fine, C. (2011) Delusions of Gender.
Saltzer, S. (2017) #MeToo Has Debunked the ‘Lean In’ Philosophy
Among other things, discusses research which shows bias, and not behaviour, explains gender inequality issues at work.
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