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Hite on Gender and the Workplace
http://www.nytimes.com/library/financial/personal/031200personal-work.html
It's titled: Sex and Work: Can't Have One Without the Other and although
Hite herself gets a description as sexy--lotta shoe attention from this
reporter--it's about gender and about her book which is due out March 20
in the US called Sex and Work. Much of what we began to discuss in class
last meeting gets mentioned in this interview. But of course if you know
Shere Hite, you know that sex is always in her Hite Reports.
LONDON -- Sitting in Britain's staid, formal Institute of
Directors with Dr. Shere Hite
is quite an experience. She is ethereal in a tight,
stretchy skirt that clings to her slim
legs; her tiny, short cardigan accentuates her
hand-span waist. Her shoes, impossibly
high, are decorated with sparkling jewels.
She is as quintessentially feminine as the room is
unabashedly masculine, with its full-length
portraits of ancient military heroes "standing in commanding
positions," Hite notes, and
presumably meant to inspire Britain's business leaders.
After 25 years reporting and
researching gender politics, she can see
no other obvious relevance to company
directors of paintings that emphasize
"the archaic, paternalistic notion of
military model hierarchies," Hite says, a
notion to which her latest book -- her
first on the world of business -- offers
more user-friendly alternatives.
The book, "Sex and Business"
(Financial Times Prentice Hall),
available in American book stores on
March 20, is not just a look at office
affairs -- or at whether you should
contemplate one with your secretary or
boss. Rather, Hite intends it to be a
blueprint for creating a new social
order in business that will, she is
convinced, filter into other areas of
society.
[more at the above URL]
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