Whether you are a leader, manager, or individual contributor, this book will help you see biases that are often hard to detect, and support you with ideas and practices to address them.
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It\'s time to prepare for a truly equitable, multiracial future and move our culture forward.
These reforms would create workplaces that reflect America\'s increasingly diverse population--professionals whose needs organizations today are ill-prepared to meet.
She demonstrates the scope and breadth of Gray areas and offers key insights and suggestions for how they can be fixed, including shifting hiring practices to include Black workers; rethinking organizational cultures to centralize Black employees\' experience; and establishing pathways that move capable Black candidates into leadership roles.
In this accessible and important antiracist work, Wingfield chronicles their experiences and blends them with history and surprising data that starkly show how old models of Work are outdated and detrimental.
In Gray Areas, she introduces seven of them: Alex, a worker in the gig economy Max, an emergency medicine doctor
Constance, a chemical engineer
Brian, a filmmaker
Amalia, a journalist
Darren, a corporate vice president; and Kevin, who works for a nonprofit.
Wingfield has spent a decade examining inequality in the workplace, interviewing over two hundred Black subjects across professions about their Work lives.
The reality is that Black employees are less likely to be hired, stall out at middle levels, and rarely progress to senior leadership positions.
While explicit discrimination no longer occurs, and organizations make internal and public pledges to honor and achieve diversity, inequities persist through What Adia Harvey Wingfield calls the Gray Areas: the relationships, networks, and cultural dynamics integral to companies that are now more important than ever.
For decades, key aspects of work--from getting a job to workplace norms to advancement and mobility--ignored and failed Black people.
Labor and race have shared a complex, interconnected history in America. --TARA MOHR, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Playing Big An informed, incisive consideration of how racial biases at Work could be overcome.--KIRKUS REVIEWS A leading sociologist reveals why racial inequality persists in the workplace despite today\'s multi-billion-dollar diversity industry--and provides actional solutions for creating a truly equitable, multiracial future.
Whether you are a leader, manager, or individual contributor, this book will help you see biases that are often hard to detect, and support you with ideas and practices to address them
