Men and women often disagree on how much support women receive from male colleagues. The differences hurt women's well-being at work | Opinion
Headlines about workplace sexism regularly bring us men sharing social media posts and retweets with hashtags like #GenderEquality. Yet, many of their female colleagues read those posts and think, “That guy? An ally? Really?”
While researchers have hypothesized about men’s beliefs and motives around allyship, I wondered: “What if I directly asked men about whether they think they are allies to women in their workplaces?” What I have found is that women’s skepticism has merit; in many cases, men believe they are better allies than their female co-workers do. Actions speak louder than words, and action from men in the workplace is still too little.
When men believed they were good allies, but women didn’t feel the same, women reported feeling less energized about working with those men, and less a part of the workplace environment. To understand why this is the case, I looked for clues in how men described their own allyship and how women described those men’s allyship.
Where some men rated themselves as allies, women often saw them as no more than doing the bare minimum as colleagues. Other men described themselves as being gender-blind because “I don’t feel that I acted in a different way than I would have had she been male,” ignoring the heavier burden of sexism that falls on women. For instance, while a man may get talked over on occasion, a woman might get talked over, and her ideas dismissed, several times a day.
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