“How Men’s Emotions Are Preventing Gender Equality at Work”
““Women in the workplace” positions women as foreigners in someone else’s terrain. Despite the fact that men are known to dominate group conversations in the workplace, where women still hold only 14.6 percent of executive office positions, we insist that maybe women are the ones not taking control of their professional situations. Despite mountains of quantitative data suggesting that women are at a disadvantage, these stories continue to focus on women adjusting their behavior at work to get ahead. But several new pieces of evidence suggest that women’s behavior at work is far less worrying than men’s…
The most upsetting thing about these findings, perhaps, is the number of men who will see them as a personal attack rather than a professional opportunity. “What makes it difficult is that the men who are most in denial about sexism are sometimes the least likely to admit that they feel threatened by women in the workplace,” Sheppard says, referring to the study participants she worked with.”
(when I originally clicked this link, the url was so magic: http://www.psmag.com/business-economics/wah-wah-why-dont-you-cry-a-little-more-you-little-man-jk-stfu) #MasculinitySoFragile.
Men really have to start taking responsibility. Please please please please please.
(credit to DK)
Related: “Solve Sexism With Overconfidence, Hope and Changing Your Brain”; “Diversity Policies Rarely Make Companies Fairer, and They Feel Threatening to White Men”; holding doors for men makes them sad
