myAIPMWhat to Do About Employees Who Consciously Exclude Women
by Jamie L. Gloor, Gudrun Sander, and Alyson Meister | Harvard Business Review
“Unconscious bias” and “inclusive leadership” have become diversity buzzwords. This makes sense given they are key ingredients for cultivating and sustaining a diverse and inclusive workforce. But what should companies do about leaders who continue to display unquestionably conscious bias? Conscious “excluders,” who despite various corporate interventions, continue to treat some folks differently due to their social group membership, may help explain the recent stagnation in progress toward gender equality in organizational leadership. While excluders’ excuses for such behaviour vary, the outcome is consistent: Excluders disadvantage women’s employment opportunities, perpetuating inequality in various ways. Here are practices that can detect the bad apples who exclude women, mothers, childfree women, people with disabilities, members of racial and ethnic minorities, mature employees, LGBTQ+ persons, etc.
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Gloor, J.L., Sander, G. & Meister, A. (2021). What to Do About Employees Who Consciously Exclude Women. Harvard Business Review. https://hbr.org/2021/11/what-to-do-about-employees-who-consciously-exclude-women