Feminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace
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| Rating | : | 4.67 (755 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B014PT1QLS |
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| Number of Pages | : | 315 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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But the problems of today’s working world are more subtle, less pronounced, harder to identify—and, if Ellen Pao is any indication, harder to prove—than those of their foremothers. These women weren’t just there to vent. Part manual, part manifesto, a humorous yet incisive guide to navigating subtle sexism at work—a pocketbook Lean In for the Buzzfeed generation that provides real-life career advice and humorous reinforcement for a new generation of professional women.It was a fight club—but without the fighting and without the men. They needed battle tactics. Bennett offers a new vocabulary for the sexist workplace archetypes women encounter everyday—such as the Manterrupter who talks over female colleagues in meetings or the Himitator who appropriates their ideas—and provides practical hacks for navigating other gender landmines in today’s working world. Once upon a time, you might have called them a consciousness-raising group. With original illustrations, Feminist Mad Libs, a Negotiation Cheat Sheet, as well as fascinating historical research and a kit for “How to Start Your O
"All Men Should Read This Book" according to Amazon Customer. This is a really amazing book. I am a man who has worked in the corporate world for a long time and--I have to be honest--I have been guilty of many of the subtly sexist behaviors that Bennett describes. But after reading Feminist Fight Club, I have been able to readily identify those moments and take action to avoid them--I can literally sit here at my desk and think of half a dozen examples of times when I was about to . Jennifer B. Kahnweiler, Ph.D. said Help make your case to thrive at work with this great book. I now have THE book to recommend to every working woman I know. Author Jessica Bennett writes that we need to fight to combat workplace sexism. She shares a myriad of practical tools and case examples that will substantially expand every woman's repertoire. I also appreciate her drawing from the substantial research on women at work to make her case and help us make our own. And as a professional woman fighting the fight . Read it and share it! SIM61 The author takes serious research on sexism and unconscious bias in the workplace and makes it accessible, easy to digest and quite fun to read. I initially bought this book for my daughter who is just starting out in the working world. But I started reading it myself and, even after 30 plus years as a professional working woman, I still found some of the hacks to be helpful. I was surprised to recognize myself falling pr
All action, no whining. The book offers unapologetic strategies for how to get down and strength up with female comrades to fight patriarchy on the daily. Every woman should have a Feminist Fight Club.” (Ilana Glazer, comedian and co-creator, Broad City)“This book offers the weapons that women need to win the war on inequality. “Funny and freshone of those books that every person, not just every woman, should read.” (Glamour)“A worthy addition to the library of any young female professional or frustrated middle manager-or male coworker who wants to help.” (Fortune)“A cheeky guide for stamping out workplace sexism.” (
She writes for the New York Times, where she covers gender issues, culture, and has a monthly column on millennials and language. Jessica Bennett is an award-winning journalist and critic. A former staff writer at Newsweek, Jessica is also a contributing editor for LeanIn, the nonprofit founded by Sheryl Sandberg, where she is the cofounder and curator of the Lean In Collection, an initiative to change how women are portrayed in stock photography. Y