Sisterhood Is Scarce

Women at Work

Harvard Business Review

Management, Entrepreneurship, Business/management, Human, Business/careers, Women, Careers, Hbr, Resources, Workplace, Gender, Business, Business/entrepreneurship, Harvard, Progress, Equality

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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We hold ourselves back when we let differences like race or class divide us from other women. We talk about the very different experiences and professional relationships black and white female managers had in 1970s and 1980s corporate America, and how workplace sisterhood is still in short supply. Guests: Ella Bell Smith and Stella Nkomo. Our theme music is Matt Hill’s “City In Motion,” provided by Audio Network.

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0:00.0	Harvard Business School Executive Education develops leaders who make a difference in the world.
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0:13.0	Learn more at HBS. Me slash work.
0:17.0	That's HBS. M.E slash work.
0:21.0	We've talked a lot on the show about the problems we work.
0:22.6	We've talked a lot on this show about the problems we women deal with throughout our careers,
0:27.2	the gender age wage gap, male colleagues who interrupt us sexual harassment, dead-end work.
0:33.3	But we haven't talked enough about the problems we create for other women by ignoring them or looking
0:38.8	past them.
0:40.3	Like if we're white and we keep our relationship with a woman of color in our office to just a passing smile in the hallway.
0:47.0	Or second-guess her decision in public.
0:49.0	Or when we don't stand up for her not, raise the barriers to her advancement. You're listening to Women at Work from Harvard Business Review. I'm Amy Bernstein.
1:10.0	I'm Sarah Green Carmichael and I'm Nicole Torres.
1:13.4	This episode is the first of a two-part conversation
1:16.2	about sisterhood and how we still have a ways to go
1:19.2	when it comes to supporting one another.
1:21.1	You know, we keep saying women. Well no group of women are
1:24.2	monolithic. Everybody has a different experience. That's Elabelle Smith. She's a
1:29.5	professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.
1:32.8	Just to put it bluntly because I see it in South Africa, white male power would prefer to deal
1:39.1	with a white woman than to deal with the black woman.
1:43.0	That's Stella and Como.
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