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Title: Why Aren't Women Advancing At Work? Ask a Transgender Person.
Post by: Xenguy on August 30, 2014, 07:23:28 PM
Post by: Xenguy on August 30, 2014, 07:23:28 PM
Why Aren't Women Advancing At Work? Ask a Transgender Person.
Jessica Nordell- 8/28/14
"Fifty years after The Feminine Mystique and 40 years after Title IX, the question of why women lag in the workplace dogs researchers and lay people alike. While women are entering the professions at rates equal to men, they rise more slowly, and rarely advance to the top. They're represented in smaller numbers at the top in fields from science to arts to business.......
......Until now. Trans people are bringing entirely new ways of approaching the discussion. Because trans people are now staying in the same careers (and sometimes the very same jobs) after they change genders, they are uniquely qualified to discuss the difference between how men and women experience the workplace. Their experience is as close to the scientific method as we can get: By isolating and manipulating gender as a variable and holding all other variables—skill, career, personality, talent—constant, these individuals reveal exactly the way one's outward appearance of gender affects day-to-day interactions."
More: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119239/transgender-people-can-explain-why-women-dont-advance-work
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Jessica Nordell- 8/28/14
"Fifty years after The Feminine Mystique and 40 years after Title IX, the question of why women lag in the workplace dogs researchers and lay people alike. While women are entering the professions at rates equal to men, they rise more slowly, and rarely advance to the top. They're represented in smaller numbers at the top in fields from science to arts to business.......
......Until now. Trans people are bringing entirely new ways of approaching the discussion. Because trans people are now staying in the same careers (and sometimes the very same jobs) after they change genders, they are uniquely qualified to discuss the difference between how men and women experience the workplace. Their experience is as close to the scientific method as we can get: By isolating and manipulating gender as a variable and holding all other variables—skill, career, personality, talent—constant, these individuals reveal exactly the way one's outward appearance of gender affects day-to-day interactions."
More: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119239/transgender-people-can-explain-why-women-dont-advance-work
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Title: Re: Why Aren't Women Advancing At Work? Ask a Transgender Person.
Post by: suzifrommd on August 31, 2014, 08:31:29 AM
Post by: suzifrommd on August 31, 2014, 08:31:29 AM
Not sure I agree with the premise "holding all other variables—skill, career, personality, talent—constant".
We're not just changing our gender.
We're also becoming "queer" in people's eyes. That's a whole lot bigger change.
We're not just changing our gender.
We're also becoming "queer" in people's eyes. That's a whole lot bigger change.
Title: Re: Why Aren't Women Advancing At Work? Ask a Transgender Person.
Post by: kira21 ♡♡♡ on August 31, 2014, 01:13:47 PM
Post by: kira21 ♡♡♡ on August 31, 2014, 01:13:47 PM
Yeah prejudice, separation, other issues to deal with. Not constant.
I was going to post this myself tho still..
I was going to post this myself tho still..