Replace certain common terms with more inclusive alternatives. Depending on the context, you can swap in 'everyone,' 'folks,' 'you all,', 'employees' or 'people' for 'guys,' 'ladies and gentlemen' or 'men and women.' IWD2019 | cbc_life
Once, at the tail end of a particularly stressful and patience-trying stretch of overtime at a past job, I got called into my CEO's office for a chat. I was great at my job, he and his male COO told me. But my attitude could use some work.
It's a testament to my actual contributions that I was asked to stay and finish the project at double my usual rate. But overall, the scenario is a relatively unremarkable example of how the type of language we use at work marginalizes women on a regular basis. , at least in part because it threatens the established social hierarchies and systems that give men a disproportionate amount of power and status.Alina Owsianik, the director of diversity, talent and inclusion at HR services company Randstad Canada points out that you never hear the terms "feisty" or "bossy" used to describe men.
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