How Those With Power and Privilege Can Help Others Advance

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🗓️ 27 October 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Tsedale Melaku, sociologist at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, and David Smith, professor at the U.S. Naval War College, have been looking at the ways people with the most power in society and organizations can become better allies to those who have less authority and influence. In the United States, that typically means white men helping their female co-workers or colleagues of color to advance. In an era when the push for gender and racial equity is gaining momentum, Melaku and Smith join host Alison Beard in a live taping that includes audience questions about the right ways to call out microaggressions, hold senior management to account, and use majority group privilege to help those in the minority. Melaku and Smith are the coauthors, along with Angie Beeman and Brad Johnson, of the HBR article "Be a Better Ally."

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0:00.0	How do you navigate gender in your workplace?
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0:09.6	and practical advice on navigating divorce, disability, and career failures.
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0:16.0	Women at Work wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the HBR Ideacast from Harvard Business Review. I'm Allison Beard. Over the past several years in the United States, we've seen two important
0:48.5	social movements, Me Too and Black Lives Matter move into the mainstream.
0:53.6	We've read stories of women being sexually harassed and abused by powerful men in business,
0:58.4	politics, and the arts.
1:00.3	We've watched videos of Black Americans being brutalized or killed by white police officers.
1:05.5	We've heard and participated in protests and calls for justice.
1:09.5	And now, finally, even in our workplaces,
1:13.2	we're beginning to have real conversations about topics that a lot of us
1:17.2	used to shy away from.
1:18.8	Sexism, racism, discrimination, bias, and yes, white male privilege.
1:25.8	My guest today think that this is actually a huge opportunity for people who represent
1:30.0	the majority groups in society and their organizations.
1:33.0	They say it's a chance for them to use their power and privilege for good.
1:37.0	And for a lot of white men in the U.S.
1:40.0	That will mean becoming allies to the women and people of color that they work with.
1:45.0	Sirele Malaku is a sociologist who studies race and gender at the Graduate Center City University of New York,
1:52.0	and David Smith is an associate professor
1:54.2	at the US Naval War College and co-author of the book Good Guys.
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