What is Male Privilege?

Picture an office building set at a temperature that could turn water into ice. Why does this happen? (Hint: it’s got something to do with male privilege.)

Picture yourself in a meeting in the midst ofsharing something brilliantwhen a male voice interrupts you. Why does this happen? (Hint: it can have something to do with male privilege.)

So what exactlyismale privilege?

This is a question I get asked a lot in my professional work as adiversity consultantand in my personal life as an activist andsocial justice warrior. Because I often write and speak about patriarchy,privilege, and supremacy, it can be easy to forget that not all forms of privilege are obvious, and male privilege is one of the easiest ones for many people to overlook because it is so common.

在这个视频中,我想为你分解穰ctly what male privilege is. And better yet, I list off a number of examples for how male privilege shows up in daily life so that you can start to better notice them and then work to interrupt them.

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