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Author: Dana Pizzuti
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Imprint: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Dimensions:
Width: 15.30cm
, Height: 1.70cm
, Length: 22.70cm
Weight: 0.378kg
ISBN: 9781785928024
ISBN 10: 1785928023
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 21 August 2018
Audience:
General/trade
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Professional and scholarly
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General
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
An outspoken advocate for transgender people, particularly as it regards access to healthcare and employment rights. -- Freedom for All Americans An honest, informative and inspiring read. This book serves to reinforce Dana Pizzuti's position as a visible and vocal role model for the trans community. She successfully combines candid insight into her own transition with legal advice, practical tips for difficult situations or conversations, and plenty of reassurance. This is an essential read for anyone who wants to learn more about gender transition. -- Ori Chandler, Managing Director, INvolve Dana Pizzuti provides a rare and beautiful insight of a health care professional living her truth. Through Dana's example we learn how one can successfully navigate every aspect of a transition in the workplace. There has never been a life story like this one, and it is told so honestly that everyone can find in it more strength, no matter what the costs to pride and prestige. -- Martine Rothblatt, Chief Executive Officer of United Therapeutics Corporation Businesses are improved by actively recruiting and supporting LGBT employees and executives, but we still have a long way to go before we have a truly inclusive workforce. In Transitioning in the Workplace, Dana Pizzuti offers the roadmap that employees and their corporations need in order to get down to the important work of ensuring that everyone-no matter how they identify-achieves equality at work. Both moving and practical. -- Erin Uritus, Chief Executive Officer of Out & Equal Workplace Advocates Dana Pizzuti's book will improve workplaces, open hearts, and save lives. Transitioning in the Workplace does many things at once: it tells moving stories of trans people's struggles and triumphs; it provides best practices for employers; and above all, it offers hope. Inspiring, pragmatic, and wise. -- Jennifer Finney Boylan, New York Times bestselling author of She's Not There and Long Black Veil
Author Information
Dana Pizzuti is a physician and is currently a Senior Vice President at a U.S. pharmaceutical company. She successfully transitioned at work in 2015, and is now a recognized transgender advocate and a representative for LGBT+ workplace equality in San Francisco.
