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Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

How Wall Street Bro Talk Keeps Women Down - The New York Times - 0 views

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shared by Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 14 Jul 16 - No Cached
  • When you create a culture where women are casually torn apart in conversation, how can you ever stomach promoting them, or working for them?
  • It’s hard to violate social norms; it’s even harder when doing so means jeopardizing millions of dollars in future earnings. For an intern, a connection with a managing director can mean a foothold in one of the most lucrative career paths in the world.
  • A woman has never been the chief executive of a major investment bank. Only about 2 percent of hedge fund managers are women. During my years on Wall Street I never saw a woman run a trading or sales desk, which is the first step toward executive management.
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  • If you think that this violence has nothing to do with bro talk, you’re wrong. When we dehumanize people in conversation, we give permission for them to be degraded in other ways as well. And even if we don’t participate, our silence condones this language. I deeply regret remaining quiet while women were being disparaged during my eight years as a trader.
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 14 Jul 16
     
    good article by Sam Polk, July 2016, on how sexist talk by men about women catapults even worse behavior by men
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Sexual harassment and the sharing economy: the dark side of working for strangers | Bus... - 0 views

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shared by Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 23 Aug 17 - No Cached
  • But almost entirely overlooked amid the public outrage is the massive pool of low-wage workers – especially in the sharing economy – who are vulnerable to a wide range of abuses on the job because they lack basic labor rights.
  • “We have to talk about this as a problem these platforms have created,” said Mary Anne Franks, a University of Miami law professor who studies online abuse. “[If you’re] going to set up a platform to make it possible for people to instantaneously communicate with people they don’t know ... you know full well it’s going to be abused and weaponized.”
  • The success of many on-demand companies like DoorDash depends on hiring a large, cheap workforce of contract employees who have no benefits or job security.
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 23 Aug 17
     
    the guardian on low wage workers in the sharing economy and their vulnerability to abuse because they lack basic labor rights.
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