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When women's support groups fragment along other identity lines

Our workplace women's group started as a way to support each other but it's become this space where the white women talk about glass ceilings and the women of color talk about different barriers entirely, and we're not really connecting across our different experiences of what it means to be a woman at work.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Women seeking solidarity are discovering that gender alone is insufficient to bridge their vastly different experiences of workplace discrimination.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with The examined female identity?”

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