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Joan C. Williams

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Joan C. Williams is a Distinguished Professor of Law, Hastings Foundation Chair, and Director of the Center for WorkLife Law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. Described by the New York Times Magazine as having "something approaching rock star status" in her field, she has played a central role in debates over structural inequality for decades. Her 2014 cowritten book, What Works for Women at Work, was praised by the New York Times Book Review as "deftly combining sociological research with a more casual narrative style . . . [that] offers unabashedly straightforward advice in a how-to primer for ambitious women." Describing her 2017 book, White Working Class, the Washington Post noted that President Joe Biden carried a dog-eared copy "everywhere, scrawling notes on the pages and pulling out well-worn copies to share passages."

You can find Joan C. Williams at:
biasinterrupted.org
joancwilliams.com

Joan C. Williams Books

Outclassed book cover

Outclassed

Joan C. Williams
5 Years of Must Reads from HBR: 2022 Edition (5 Books) book cover

5 Years of Must Reads from HBR: 2022 Edition (5 Books)

Harvard Business Review
Hybrid Workplace: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review book cover

Hybrid Workplace: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review

Harvard Business Review
Bias Interrupted book cover

Bias Interrupted

Joan C. Williams
Racial Justice: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review book cover

Racial Justice: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review

Harvard Business Review
5 Years of Must Reads from HBR: 2021 Edition (5 Books) book cover

5 Years of Must Reads from HBR: 2021 Edition (5 Books)

Harvard Business Review
What Works for Women at Work book cover

What Works for Women at Work

Joan C. Williams
5 Years of Must Reads from HBR: 2020 Edition (5 Books) book cover

5 Years of Must Reads from HBR: 2020 Edition (5 Books)

Harvard Business Review
White Working Class, With a New Foreword by Mark Cuban and a New Preface by the Author book cover

White Working Class, With a New Foreword by Mark Cuban and a New Preface by the Author

Joan C. Williams
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Diversity (with bonus article "Making Differences Matter: A New Paradigm for Managing Diversity" By David A. Thomas and Robin J. Ely) book cover

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Diversity (with bonus article "Making Differences Matter: A New Paradigm for Managing Diversity" By David A. Thomas and Robin J. Ely)

Harvard Business Review
5 Years of Must Reads from HBR: 2019 Edition book cover

5 Years of Must Reads from HBR: 2019 Edition

Harvard Business Review
HBR's Women at Work Collection book cover

HBR's Women at Work Collection

Harvard Business Review
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Women and Leadership (with bonus article "Sheryl Sandberg: The HBR Interview") book cover

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Women and Leadership (with bonus article "Sheryl Sandberg: The HBR Interview")

Harvard Business Review
HBR's 10 Must Reads 2019 book cover

HBR's 10 Must Reads 2019

Harvard Business Review
What Works for Women at Work: A Workbook book cover

What Works for Women at Work: A Workbook

Joan C. Williams
White Working Class book cover

White Working Class

Joan C. Williams
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