Links on exclusion in the workplace?
Posted: January 23, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized 1 Comment »Recently I blogged on the serial exclusion that my female friend is experiencing at work — surely this is not an issue specific to women, and can be experienced by any non-member of the alpha group — but since it’s an issue that seems to be repeating itself, in our experience, with a female person and a male group, we are curious to know what others have blogged on this topic. My guess is to start with Zuska. Can any of you suggest in the comments some links that would be appropriate? My general thought is surely this topic has been hashed and re-hashed and I’ve just missed it.
[Update] I’ve finally found a bit of time to start collating some links as resources, and at least one person (thanks Dawn!) has dropped some links in the comments section. I’m going to keep updating this post as I find relevant links or am pointed to them.
The Zuska, Explaining (Away) Women Geeks (A little off topic but relevant for my friend)
From Hermie’s wimminz in academia series:
Female Science Professor
Nicole and Maggie
PiT
Relatively random but seemingly appropriate links:
Formal and Informal Discrimination at Work, a pdf
Ms Magazine blog, Old Boys Club Still Meets on the Golf Course
Women in business, WSJ
Black women and exclusion by white men
I feel like I should have 47,000 references to send you. But the “Good Ol’ Boys Network” is so pervasive that I’m not even sure we bother to write about it without looking at it through more lenses than that.
And yes, it’s also a phenomenon that’s discussed by people of color, people with working class backgrounds, gay and lesbian folks, people with disabilities – folks feel excluded in work environments when the alpha group sets the norms based on their interests.
The only thing that’s popping up for me is Sherry Turkle’s work on Computational Reticence – http://web.mit.edu/sturkle/www/pdfsforstwebpage/ST_Compu%20Reticence.pdf
Also this issue of Women’s Studies Quarterly on Building Inclusive Science: http://www.amazon.com/Womens-Studies-Quarterly-28-Inclusive/dp/1558612432
Older stuff, but it’s still relevant for what is a pervasive issue.