Full Description
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.
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
