Feminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace
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| Rating | : | 4.15 (648 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B014PT1QLS |
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| Number of Pages | : | 100 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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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. I, for one, am ready to engage.” (Rewire) . Bennett manages to convey a remarkable amount of substance briskly and entertainingly… it has performed a huge service not just to its target audience but to the businesses they will be joining.” (New York Times)“Bennett takes the best of what she and her fellow professionals have gleaned over the years and presents it to us for adoption. With mighty wit, Bennett shows women how to defeat the enemies—and men how to stop being enemies. Jessica is a unique voice-and I will proudly proclaim myself a card-carrying member of the FFC.” (Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook and autho
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. She writes for the New York Times,
"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 readil. 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 appr. "Read it and share it!" according to 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
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. 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 Own Club,” Feminist Fight Club tackles both the external (sexist) and internal (self-sabotaging) behaviors that plague today’s women—as well as the system that perpetuates them.. And so the fight club was born.Hard-hitting and entertaining, Feminist Fight Club blends personal stories with research, statistics, infographics, and no-bullsh*t expert advice. But the problems of today’s working world are more subtle, less pronounced, harder to identify—and