Battle Tactics for Your Sexist Workplace
PRX
If you've ever had a job, you know what we're talking about. Being talked over. Being passed over. Being told you're too intimidating or not authoritative enough. Racism and sexism at work might not look the way it did a generation ago, but it's still...
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If you've ever had a job, you know what we're talking about. Being talked over. Being passed over. Being told you're too intimidating or not authoritative enough. Racism and sexism at work might not look the way it did a generation ago, but it's still very real. Jeannie Yandel and Eula Scott Bynoe break down how sexism and racism shows up in the modern workplace. And with humor, smarts, and help from some badass experts, they bring you real tactics you can use to push back.
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Episodes
Running Out Of Words
6/6/2022
After the latest series of national events where, as Eula says, the country has "played us for f***ing fools", Eula and Jeannie have decided it's time for a break. Like so many of us, they need some quiet and some rest. They're taking a break for the summer but hope to be back in the fall.
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Duration:00:25:01
Firing The Voice Police (Part 2) With The Vocal Fries
5/23/2022
When we asked the BTSW Facebook group whether they'd ever been voice policed on the job, we got a ton of stories and responses. So many that we decided we needed to dedicate a whole episode just to those stories. So today is Part 2 of our conversation with the hosts of the excellent podcast The Vocal Fries - the podcast about linguistic discrimination.
Megan Figueroa is a linguist, writer, and research scientist, and Carrie Gillon is also a linguist and the language planner and researcher...
Duration:00:40:51
Firing The Voice Police (Part 1) With The Vocal Fries
5/9/2022
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**NOTE: During this episode, we refer to Rachel Jeantel by her last name only. We wanted to clarify and use her full name here. Rachel Jeantel was a primary prosecution witness at Trayvon Martin's murder trial. Court officials claimed she was "hard to understand" and ultimately her testimony was...
Duration:00:38:27
A BTSW Tactic In Action: Going Public About A Pay Gap
3/7/2022
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"BREAKING: Schwing quits the Northwest News Network. The reason? My male colleagues make tens of thousands of dollars more for the same work. And TBH, making this public scares the S-H-star-T out of me. "
That was a tweet reporter Emily Schwing sent in March 2019, after quitting her job with something called the Northwest News Network. That’s a collection of...
Duration:00:31:30
Old Boys' Clubs, Dress Codes, And "Feminists": Advice With Keita Williams AKA Success Bully
2/7/2022
Over the course of making this podcast, we have gotten a lot of messages from listeners asking for help, perspective, and advice on crappy work situations. Eula and Jeannie rounded up a bunch of those messages and brought in some deep expertise to help respond - in the form of the fantastic Keita Williams, founder and head of the elite accountability practice Success Bully. She brings insight and tons of tactics for sticky (wait! we mean sexist and racist) workplace dilemmas.
NOTE: This...
Duration:00:37:41
Diversity Guests: A Chat With TBTL's Luke Burbank And Andrew Walsh
1/24/2022
We have often talked *about* straight cis white dudes on this show. But the number of times we've talked *to* them on the show? Next to never. So we wanted to revisit this bonus episode from the Before Times with two of our favorite dudes, Luke Burbank and Andrew Walsh, the co-hosts of the long-running daily podcast Too Beautiful To Live. We talked about allyship and their own evolving thoughts about racism and sexism on the job.
Luke also hosts Live Wire on public radio stations everywhere...
Duration:00:59:14
How One Woman Of Color (Specifically, Eula) Ended Up Leaving Public Radio
1/10/2022
Earlier this week, longtime NPR host Audie Cornish announced she's quitting her job. Soon after, public media Twitter started re-asking questions it's been asking for a while now: why are so many people of color leaving public radio? Audie's co-host Ari Shapiro tweeted a thread about it, including re-tweeting a list from NPR podcast host Sam Sanders listing all the hosts from underestimated backgrounds who'd recently left NPR (that list is now outdated). Other folks pointed out that this...
Duration:00:29:14
How To Stand Up For Your Co-Workers - And Yourself
12/13/2021
Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you wanted to be an effective ally or advocate for a co-worker, but when a situation arises that seems like you should be doing or saying something, you worry that you won’t do the most helpful thing? That your actions or words might actually make things worse for your co-worker? How do you know you’re actually helping?
This is a dilemma that comes up a lot in emails from listeners. And in the Before Times, we talked to someone about exactly...
Duration:00:34:58
When Eula Met Jeannie
11/29/2021
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When it comes to this podcast, that's the question Eula and Jeannie get asked the most. And it's one of their favorite stories to tell. So on this episode, we're doing something a little different. We're having them tell the story of how they met and their friendship.
Big thanks to our Senior Producer Kyle Norris for suggesting we make this a podcast episode!
You're Not Uncool. Making Friends As An Adult Is Just...
Duration:00:24:48
We'll Be Back On November 29th!
11/15/2021
Some stuff broke, and we need a minute to regroup. We'll be back in two weeks!
In the meantime, if you miss us, there's a whole bunch of fresh bonus content on our Patreon for supporting members.
Duration:00:01:16
Why Imposter Syndrome Is Starting "To Sound Like Bulls**t"
11/1/2021
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"Carry yourself with the confidence of a mediocre white guy". This was a tactic we heard in our Season 1 episode on Imposter Syndrome. If you haven't yet, give this episode a listen. It's our most downloaded episode, and the topic we are asked to speak the most about. For a while, it's felt as though lots of us couldn't get enough tactics to battle...
Duration:00:43:59
Sometimes Invisibility Isn't A Superpower
10/18/2021
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There's a phenomenon researchers have observed among many women in the workplace that they call "intentional invisibility". It happens because for many women, they are both aware that they must be visible at work to get ahead - own their ideas, speak up, use their voices - while also worrying that they'll be penalized for being too...
Duration:02:26:49
Britney
10/4/2021
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Even before the conservatorship, Britney Spears had to figure out how to navigate a stunningly sexist workplace. The kind of workplace where it was considered charming for a fully adult Ed McMahon to compliment your "pretty eyes" and ask if you have a boyfriend...when you're ten years old...and on national television.
Jeannie and Eula have a heart-to-heart about the public narrative around Britney Spears, and...
Duration:00:39:34
Part 2: "Telling The Whole Truth" About Grief At Work
9/20/2021
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When Marisa Renee Lee's mother passed away, Marisa tried to do everything right. She continued to work hard at her job. She saved her asks for time off and support at work for when she really needed it. And she tried to make sure all the tasks that surround a loved one's illness and passing were completed in an efficient way. Her lesson: you can't project-manage and hustle your way out of grief. Even if...
Duration:01:07:13
Part 1: Yes, Your Workplace Is Grieving - Even If You Don't Realize It
9/6/2021
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A few months ago, we asked members of the BTSW Facebook group whether they were experiencing grief, and what they were grieving. We got dozens of answers - people were grieving their lives before the pandemic. Live music and theater. Child care. Friends, family, and partners. Jobs. Relationships. Those answers made something very clear - we are all grieving. Many of us are grieving multiple losses.
Then...
Duration:00:38:29
Surprise! You're An Essential Worker!
8/23/2021
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Even in the Before Times, the restaurant industry had problems. Seventy percent of its women and femme employees said they'd experienced sexual harassment on the job. The EEOC took in more harassment complaints from restaurant workers than any other workplace. And then there's the federal minimum wage for tipped workers - a whopping $2.13 per hour. Then Covid hit. Jeannie and Eula talk with a longtime...
Duration:00:39:21
BTSW Season 3 Starts August 23!
7/20/2021
We're baaaaaaack! Friends, we're so excited to bring you Season 3 of Battle Tactics For Your Sexist Workplace. This season, we'll take a deep look at grief (surprise! The way we handle grief is sexist!), revisit imposter syndrome, discuss what it takes (and costs) to be your authentic self at work, and we look at what may be the most sexist workplace in America: restaurants.
We've missed you so much and can't wait to bring you this new season. The guests are brilliant, the tactics are fire,...
Duration:00:02:12
BTSW Live: Who gets to be the hero?
11/26/2019
There's no shortage of hero stories in our books, on TV, and in movies. And for a long time, most of our heroes, from flawed to super, had something in common: they were either white dudes or femme fatales. (Or in Superman's case, a space alien who passed as a white dude.) But wait! That doesn't mean we're doomed to have the same kinds of stories or the same kinds of heroes forever. Join Eula Scott Bynoe and Jeannie Yandel, hosts of KUOW’s Battle Tactics For Your Sexist Workplace podcast,...
Duration:01:04:16
Patriarchy hurts men too. Liz Plank wants us to talk about that.
11/5/2019
Liz Plank is an award-winning journalist and the author of the new book *For the Love of Men. *She talks to Jeannie Yandel about why we need to have more conversations about the patriarchy that include men’s voices.
Duration:00:27:06
Madam Pomfrey (Women of Harry Potter)
10/22/2019
On this week's podcast, we share an episode from a podcast we love, Women of Harry Potter a feminist podcast that looks at the women characters in the series.
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It’s Vanessa’s turn to bless a female character of Harry Potter, and she’s chosen to bless Madam Pomfrey for her invisible labor. Ariana invents a game about woman doctors in America.
Duration:00:25:58