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Affirmative Action: Shared Responsibility?

Publication: Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
September 1984

Abstract

It is neither useful nor productive to categorize people in business according to their gender, since most categories tend to create dysfunctional blocks which are highly visible in organizational affirmative action programs. Most women have been led to accept that men were here first. Now women who want “equality,” “affirmation,” and financial mobility are faced with reeducating both themselves and other women in redefining their relationships with those who have the power to affirm. This article addresses the interim survival strategies that women training women must learn if they are to be able to empower each other through the transition from being protesters to effective team players; if they are to be able to trade a victim identity for a competency-based identity; and if they are to be able to move from unrealistic, grandiose goals to systematic and strategic rist-taking that will pay off in the future.

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Il n'est ni utile, ni productif de catégoriser les gens d'affaires selon leur sexe; la plupart des catégories tendent à créer des blocs de dysfonctionnement qui deviennent trés visibles dans les programmes d'action positive des organisations. La plupart des femmes ont été amenées à accepter que les hommes étaient là les premiers. Maintenant, les femmes qui veulent l'égalité, la mobilité financière et la reconnaissance de ce qu'elles sont doivent se rééduquer et rééduquer les autres femmes pour redéfinir les termes des relations qu'elles ont avec ceux qui ont le pouvoir de “reconnaître.” Le présent article expose les stratégies de survie intérimaires que les femmes, formant d'autres femmes, doivent apprendre si elles veulent être capables de tirer profit de la transition du rôle de protestataires à celui de partenaires efficaces au sein d'une équipe; aínsi elles seront en mesure de changer leur identité de victime pour celle de personne compétente et pourront mettre de côté leurs grandioses objectifs irréalistes pour prendre des risques systématiques et stratégiques qui porteront fruit dans le futur.

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cover image Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
Volume 3Number 2September 1984
Pages: 73 - 78

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Judith Segal

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