Whooooooooooops!

[Content Note: Kyriarchy.]

This would be hilarious if it weren't so terrible:

How are white male managers doing when it comes to diversity? Great! At least that's what the white male managers said in a recent survey.

What do the non-white, non-male managers think? Not as upbeat.

...Asked to rate the diversity effectiveness among white male leaders in their companies, 45 percent of white men gave a positive rating. Among women and people of color, only 21 percent agreed. Wide gaps were also found in the perception of white men's abilities to coach and improve the performance of diverse employees (33 points difference); build strong, diverse teams (36 points); promote diverse talent on merit (36 points); and include diverse voices in decision making (40 points.)

That is a quite a disparity!

The framing of the disparity in this piece is rather remarkable, too:

But according to the study, it's not entirely the fault of white male managers. What we have here, it claims, is failure to communicate.

...[White male leaders] are doing great when it comes to being respectful, the survey said, but fall short when it comes to saying what they really think. Too many fear that any criticism or discussion of race or gender will likely get them in trouble, so they avoid it entirely.

Ha ha that is definitely my experience with a decade of working in Corporate America—my (cis, straight) white male bosses were TOO RESPECTFUL. They were SO SCARED to criticize people who didn't share their privileges. Their overwhelming respect for us was a real problem.

To quote my pal Pam: *blink*

[H/T to Shaker Brunocerous.]