
5 Books to Help You Survive and Fight Office Sexism
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Even with an office full of allies, most of us need an extra boost when it comes to surviving and thriving in a sexist workplace. Luckily these authors are here to help.
The first rule of Feminist Fight Club is that we all talk about it. A lot. Using a lightly-anonymised version of a real feminist fight club that she use to belong to, New York Times Gender Editor Jessica Bennett lays out practical solutions for tackling office sexism. It’s enough to make you want to start your own feminist fight club, and Bennett includes tips for male allies who might want to help but don’t really know where to start.
Otecha Uwagba understands the power of networking and founded Women Who, an online platform for women working in the creative industries. But, thankfully, Uwagba didn’t stop there. She also wrote Little Black Book: A Toolkit For Working Women that covers every scenario you can imagine (asking for a pay rise, setting up a company, maintaining a personal brand) and it also contains contributions from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
Many readers will come to Ellen Pao’s book about sexism in Silicon Valley thinking that they already know what went down, but only a couple of chapters into Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change, it’s easy to see why Roxane Gay praised the book as “necessary and incisive”. Burnt out and struggling to decide if workplace sexism will ever get better? Read this book. Want to make changes but not sure how or where to begin? Read this book. Just fancy an easy read that will enrage and inspire you in equal measure? Read this book.
Even with an office full of allies, most of us need an extra boost when it comes to surviving and thriving in a sexist workplace. Luckily these authors are here to help.