How Women (and Everyone) Can Form Deeper Bonds to Fight Bias at Work

The number of women—especially women of color—in leadership ranks
at the world’s largest companies remains desperately small. Tina
Opie, associate professor of management at Babson College, offers a
new practice for women to lift each other up and fight systemic
bias in the workplace, something she calls “shared sisterhood.” The
idea is to be more honest with each other, forming truer bonds.
That involves listening, understanding yourself, and a willingness
to take risks. With University of Iowa management professor Beth
Livingston, Opie wrote the new book “Shared Sisterhood: How to Take
Collective Action for Racial and Gender Equity at Work.”