Glass Walls

Shattering the Six Gender Bias Barriers Still Holding Women Back at Work

De: Amy Diehl, Leanne M. Dzubinski

Narrado por: Katherine Fenton

Bloomsbury presents Glass Walls by Amy Diehl and Leanne M. Dzubinski, read by Katherine Fenton.

“The practicality and clarity make this a valuable contribution to collections in academic and public libraries.” — Booklist, Starred Review

A new, important, and richly detailed guide to understanding gender bias with practical solutions for leaders, workplace allies, and individual women.

Gender bias is a powerful but hidden force that is still holding women back, keeping them from achieving their full potential and limiting organizations from achieving the creativity, problem solving, and growth that are possible with a diverse workforce.

In this revealing new book, Amy Diehl and Leanne Dzubinski shine a new light on gender bias in the workplace, uncovering the barriers that work like glass walls surrounding women. Through their original research, they have discovered six core factors and multiple subfactors of bias, giving names to some elements for the first time ever.

Their findings and analysis present a new, important, and richly detailed guidebook to understanding gender bias. They reveal:

- How male privilege, the bedrock on which gender bias is built, results in a workplace created by men and for men
- How women encounter disproportionate constraints in that workplace, being expected to play supportive roles to men
- The surprising ways in which women experience insufficient support based on gender
- The concept of devaluation, and how it tells women they don’t belong at work
- The troubling ways women face hostility to keep them in their supposed place, merely because of their gender
- How the combined weight of these barriers leads to acquiescence, when women internalize the obstacles and adapt to the limitations

The barriers identified, and the subcomponents of each, are destined to become the framework for understanding gender bias. Glass Walls provides a roadmap to shatter barriers holding women back once and for all.

©2025 Amy Diehl, Leanne M. Dzubinski (P)2025 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Reseñas de la Crítica

Glass Walls reveals hidden gender biases that have plagued the traditional workplace. Drs. Diehl and Dzubinski’s evidence-based approach to understanding how these biases operate ensure that leaders and organizations have a roadmap to finally shatter gender biases stifling women’s careers and organizational potential. A must read for allies and leaders looking to quickly create real sustainable change! (David G. Smith, PhD, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, and coauthor of Good Guys and Athena Rising)

Glass Walls couldn’t have come at a better time. Drs Diehl and Dzubinski provide a much-needed framework to understand the playing field for women in today’s working world - and the subtle mechanisms that continue to keep women out of positions of influence. More than just theory, however, it’s a practical guide for the women, allies, and inclusive leaders crying out for strategies to overcome and ultimately, dismantle these invisible barriers. (Fiona Macaulay, Founder-CEO, WILD Network and Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University McDonough School of Business)

Powerful! Glass Walls is a crucial resource for anyone seeking to promote gender diversity, cultivate creativity, and unlock the full potential of their workforce. Filled with examples of real and incredible women, and backed by research, this book is a call to action for individuals, management, and allies alike, providing the tools needed to break down barriers and build a more equitable and thriving workplace. (Dr. Marshall Goldsmith, Thinkers50 #1 Executive Coach and New York Times bestselling author of The Earned Life, Triggers, and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There)