Gender Equality Issues

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4.6 • 782 Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Are you being treated unfairly at work because of your gender? Dan and Alison answer your questions with the help of Michelle King, the director of inclusion at Netflix. They talk through what to do when you and other women on your team are being marginalized, you’re a man experiencing reverse discrimination, or gender bias is blocking your advancement.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dear HBR from Harvard Business Review.
0:03.9	I'm Dan McGinn.
0:04.9	And I'm Alison Beard.
0:12.3	Work can be frustrating, but it doesn't have to be.
0:15.3	We don't need to let the conflicts get us down.
0:17.8	That's where Dear HBR comes in.
0:19.9	We take your questions, look at the research, talk to the experts, and help you move forward.
0:32.3	Today we're talking about gender issues with Michelle King.
0:35.5	She's the director of inclusion at Netflix.
0:37.7	Her new book is The Fix, Overcome the Invisible Barriers that are holding women back at work.
0:42.6	Michelle, thanks for coming in the show.
0:43.9	Thanks for having me.
0:45.4	So we're a couple of years out from the beginning of Me Too.
0:48.7	How have companies responded?
0:50.6	To date off-the-shelf training, sexual harassment training, or, you know, how to sort of engage in behaviors that are not inappropriate, right,
0:58.2	and trying to define some of the gray for employees.
1:00.4	But by the time somebody is behaving in an inappropriate way, it's too late.
1:05.6	And it's because it doesn't change day-to-day behaviors.
1:08.3	It doesn't change that lived experience.
1:09.7	How often have you run into gender bias, either people coming to you and saying they're facing it or personally?
1:17.6	So I have hundreds of examples throughout my career of how inequality showed up.
1:21.6	I don't think you can be a woman today and not have encountered marginalization or discrimination or day-to-day
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