Overview

Offering a fresh and practical perspective for employers and gender-diverse professionals, this book presents useful tools, information, and resources to help organizations and individuals to understand and leverage the power of gender authenticity as a pathway to business success. The unemployment rate for gender-diverse individuals is disproportionately high. This book will help employers to better understand why this blatant discrepancy exists. It also provides useful solutions and potential remedies for the problem in the form of gender authenticity, an exciting and powerful concept that is taking the global business community in innovative directions. The breakthrough paradigm of gender authenticity is helping many organizations to become more inclusive while simultaneously gaining a significant competitive advantage. The author, a leading diversity consultant, introduces five fundamentals for creating gender-authentic workplaces. Human resource and diversity professionals will not find a more useful source than this book to help people and organizations to deal effectively with the issue of gender diversity on the job, and gender-diverse employees will learn new strategies for advancing their careers while achieving and maintaining gender authenticity.

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Author:   Vanessa Sheridan ,  Mike Quigley
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Praeger Publishers Inc
Weight:   0.595kg
ISBN:  

9781440858062

ISBN 10:   1440858063
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   01 December 2018
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Foreword by Congressman Mike Quigley Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1 Implications for the Business Community Chapter 2 The Continuing Evolution of Gender-Related Terminology Chapter 3 Gender Authenticity: Today's New Model for Organizational Success Chapter 4 Why Gender Authenticity Matters Chapter 5 The Transgender Turning Point Chapter 6 The Business Case for Gender Authenticity Chapter 7 HR/Diversity/EEO Professionals and Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)/Business Resource Groups (BRGs): Partners for Positive Change Chapter 8 Five Fundamentals for a Gender-Authentic Workplace: Action Steps That Produce Desired Results Chapter 9 Policies and Best Practices Chapter 10What We Wear to Work Chapter 11 Facilities Access and Availability Chapter 12 Gender Realignment Support Chapter 13 Addressing Gender-Specific Health Care Concerns Chapter 14 Recognizing and Responding to Resistance Chapter 15 Some Dos and Don'ts Appendix: Gender Authenticity: A Key to Liberation from the Gender Binary Resources Notes Index

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Vanessa Sheridan is director of gender equity and inclusion at Chicago's Center on Halsted, the most comprehensive LGBT community center in the Midwest, and author of The Complete Guide to Transgender in the Workplace.

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