Skip to content
FREE SHIPPING ON ALL DOMESTIC ORDERS $35+
FREE SHIPPING ON ALL US ORDERS $35+
Bias Interrupted: Creating Inclusion for Real and for Good - Hardcover | Diverse Reads

Bias Interrupted: Creating Inclusion for Real and for Good

Availability:
in stock, ready to be shipped
Save 11% Save 11%
$28.00
$28.00 - $28.00
$28.00
$24.99
$24.99 - $24.99
$24.99
A cutting-edge, relentless, objective approach to inclusion.

Companies spend billions of dollars annually on diversity efforts with remarkably few results. Too often diversity efforts rest on the assumption that all that's needed is an earnest conversation about "privilege." That's not enough. To truly make progress we need to stop celebrating the problem and instead take effective steps to solve it.

In Bias Interrupted, Joan C. Williams shows how it's done, and, reassuringly, how easy it is to get started. One of today's preeminent voices on inclusive workplaces, Williams explains how leaders can use standard business tools—data, metrics, and persistence—to interrupt the bias that is continually transmitted through formal systems like performance appraisals, as well as the informal systems that control access to career-enhancing opportunities. The book presents fresh evidence, based on Williams's exhaustive research and work with companies, that interrupting bias helps every group—including white men.

Comprehensive, though compact and straightforward, Bias Interrupted delivers real, practical value in an efficient and accessible manner to an audience that has never needed it more. It's possible to interrupt bias. Here's where you start.

ISBN-13: 9781647822729

Media Type: Hardcover

Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press

Publication Date: 11-16-2021

Pages: 288

Product Dimensions: 5.60(w) x 8.30(h) x 1.20(d)

Joan C. Williams is a Distinguished Professor of Law, Hastings Foundation Chair, and Director of the Center for WorkLife Law at the Universityof California, Hastings College of the Law. Described by the New York Times Magazine as having "something approaching rock star status" in her field, she has played a central role in debates over structural inequality for decades. Her 2014 cowritten book, What Works for Women at Work, was praised by the New York Times Book Review as "deftly combining sociological research with a more casual narrative style . . . [that] offers unabashedly straightforward advice in a how-to primer for ambitious women." Describing her 2017 book, White Working Class, the Washington Post noted that President Joe Biden carried a dog-eared copy "everywhere, scrawling notes on the pages and pulling out well-worn copies to share passages." You can find Joan C. Williams at: biasinterrupted.org joancwilliams.com

Table of Contents

1 What's the path forward? 1

2 Is bias training worthless? 19

3 We're a meritocracy. Are you asking us to change that? 31

4 Why do some groups need to be politically savvier to succeed? 51

5 Are you saying that white men have it easy? I don't feel privileged 75

6 We cherish our culture. Can we retain that and still achieve DEI goals? 89

7 Can we make progress on DEI without getting all rigid and bureaucratic? 103

8 Women's priorities change after having kids. Are you saying I should ignore that? 113

9 Isn't it natural-and inevitable-that people who work harder go further? 129

10 If we hire more women and people of color, won't the DEI problem take care of itself? 137

11 What does the CEO need to do to finally deliver on DEI goals? 147

12 How can a company change who gets access to opportunities? (Hint: Only the CEO can) 165

13 How can CDOs and HR get buy-in-and deliver-on DEI goals? 183

14 How can HR and DEI departments work together to interrupt bias in basic business systems? 189

15 How can individual managers help move the needle-and manage more effectively? 203

Conclusion 215

Appendix 217

Notes 219

Index 251

Acknowledgments 267

About the Author 271