{"product_id":"glass-walls-by-amy-diehl-9798216382133","title":"Glass Walls","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe practicality and clarity make this a valuable contribution to collections in academic and public libraries. — \u003cem\u003eBooklist,\u003c\/em\u003e Starred Review\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA new, important, and richly detailed guide to understanding gender bias with practical solutions for leaders, workplace allies, and individual women.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGender bias is a powerful but hidden force that is \u003cem\u003estill\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTheir findings and analysis present a new, important, and richly detailed guidebook to understanding gender bias. They reveal:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHow \u003cem\u003emale privilege\u003c\/em\u003e, the bedrock on which gender bias is built, results in a workplace created by men and for men.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHow women encounter \u003cem\u003edisproportionate constraints\u003c\/em\u003e in that workplace, being expected to play supportive roles to men.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe surprising ways in which women experience \u003cem\u003einsufficient support\u003c\/em\u003e based on gender.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe concept of \u003cem\u003edevaluation\u003c\/em\u003e, and how it tells women they don’t belong at work.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe troubling ways women face \u003cem\u003ehostility\u003c\/em\u003e to keep them in their supposed place, merely because of their gender.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHow the combined weight of these barriers leads to \u003cem\u003eacquiescence\u003c\/em\u003e, when women internalize the obstacles and adapt to the limitations.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe barriers identified, and the subcomponents of each, are destined to become the framework for understanding gender bias.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGlass Walls\u003c\/em\u003e provides a roadmap to shatter barriers holding women back once and for all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PTY Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47430805651692,"sku":"9798216382133","price":36.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9798216382133.jpg?v=1774558527","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/glass-walls-by-amy-diehl-9798216382133","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}