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Sex And Business...
Thursday, March 30, 2000 - 5:00 PM ET
LONDON
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Each morning, men and women go off to a spend eight to 10 hours
or more in a place where how we behave dictates how happy and successful
we are in our professional lives. But can men and women work together?
Shere Hite, author of The Hite Report,
which broke ground in its study of human sexuality in the '70s,
has published her new study, Sex and Business. She chats
with The Early Show Friday to share more about gender
differences in the workplace.
"Corporate executives today could feel unconsciously uncomfortable
being 'disloyal' to the men's group at work, by working closely
with women on an equal level or promoting women above men,"
says Hite in a Financial Times article.
"If men can break the spell of this fear they learned early
in life, a fear that to many has become unrecognizable, then the
meritocracy that was promised could become a reality. Once it is
realized that corporate boardrooms resemble the boy's bully system
at school, and that they don't have to, things can change."
She comes to this conclusion after an extensive research on male-female
interaction in the workplace.
In Sex
and Business: Ethics in Sexuality in Business and the Workplace,
she exposes the rules and attitudes men and women acquire socially,
in an effort to dissipate the behavioral confusion between genders
as more and more women make their presence known in an environment
previously dominated by men.
She includes among her interviewees, New York City mayor Rudolph
Giuliani, the head of J. Rothschild Assurance, Mike Wilson and former
chairman of media conglomerate Bertelsmann, Dr. Mark Wossner.
Hite, who is 57 years old, is also the director of Hite Research
International and has consulted Fortune 100 corporations on sexual
ethics in the workplace. She has also lectured at major academic
institutions such as Harvard, The Sorbonne, Oxford and Cambridge
and she is professor of Gender & Culture at Nihon University
of Tokyo, Japan.
And she is also known for her stunning charm in a world where feminism
has always been synonymous with assertiveness and aggression.
She received great media attention in the '70s for her report on
female sexuality, setting herself against experts on sex from Freud
to Kinsey. She followed that book with The Hite Report on Male
Sexuality in 1981, creating even more controversy for her findings.
Hite is also the author of:
- Women and Love:
A Cultural Revolution in Progress
- Women and Revolutionary
Agents of Change: The Hite Reports and Beyond
- The Hite Report
on the Family: Growing Up Under Patriarchy
- Women and Sex Therapy:
Closing the Circle of Sexual Knowledge.
For more information about the author and her book visit her Web
site at SexandBusiness.com |
