Lesbians and Work: The Advantages and Disadvantages of 'Comfortable Shoes'

ISBN-13: 9781560236894 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 116 str.

Brand, Pamela

Opis

"Co-published simultaneously as Journal of Lesbian Studies, Volume 12, Number 1 2008."

Learn the disadvantages—and advantages—that lesbians may experience at work

What differences and similarities exist at work between lesbian women in various careers around the world? Lesbians and Work: The Advantages and Disadvantages of “Comfortable Shoes” answers this crucial question, providing respected authorities presenting qualitative research methods to closely examine lesbian women’s working lives. This insightful resource discusses the variability among lesbians in their experiences of and responses to workplace heteronormativity and cites the similarities among this population across geographical and national boundaries. Presented in their own words, these women’s viewpoints reveal a wide spectrum of experiences—both advantages and disadvantages—of being a lesbian woman in the workplace.

Lesbians and Work: The Advantages and Disadvantages of “Comfortable Shoes” provides international perspectives on lesbians and work that can help readers making career choices to consider sexual orientation issues in choosing their career path. The book also can be used by human resource professionals as a resource to learn how to better manage sexual diversity in the workplace, provide effective training/development programs to address sexual prejudice, alter benefits requirements for employees, and avoid discrimination lawsuits.

Topics discussed in Lesbians and Work: The Advantages and Disadvantages of “Comfortable Shoes” include:

• workplace heteronormativity and its effects on sexual minorities
• pros and cons of coming out at work
• job choices among lesbians
• workplace discrimination based upon sexual orientation
• economics of work for lesbians
• and much more!

Lesbians and Work: The Advantages and Disadvantages of “Comfortable Shoes” is a valuable resource for human resource managers, college professors in women’s studies, lesbian studies, psychology and their students, and career counselors.

O autorze

Pamela A. Brand, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Psychology at the State University of New York (SUNY) College at Oswego. Dr. Brand teaches undergraduate courses on Social Psychology, Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Forensic Psychology, Violence in Contemporary Society, and Interpersonal Victimization. She began researching lesbian issues as an undergraduate, publishing the first empirical study comparing relationship violence among lesbian and heterosexual women. Currently, her research interests focus on violence-related attitude measurement, formation, and change.