Title: What Is Marginalization & What Can You Do About It?
Headings: What Is Marginalization & What Can You Do About It?
What Is Marginalization & What Can You Do About It?
Examples of marginalization
Effects of marginalization
How to deal with marginalization at work
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Beth Castle

Content: Denying professional opportunities because of aspects of someone’s identity (racism, sexism, ableism)
Not providing equal access to resources because of someone’s identity
Derogatory language or bullying
Assuming someone got where they are only because they “check a diversity box”
Singling someone out because of their religious beliefs or cultural practices
Refusing to recognize good work or consistently taking credit for another’s work
Finding ways to isolate someone, like purposefully leaving them out of meetings
Blatant disrespect
The behavior usually results in marginalized employees feeling invisible, as if their skills are unwelcome or unnecessary on their team or in their company. Writer Jeanette LeBlanc penned perhaps one of the most eloquent quotes about marginalization, both in terms of how it affects those who are marginalized and flies under the radar. “You will quite likely encounter the notion that we create our own reality,” she writes. “ This can be an empowering idea and also true is so many ways. But it is also entitled and arrogant and can quickly move into a dangerous form of gaslighting. When this happens it is an act of shaming and a violence done. Because f****d up things happen. F****d up and violent things. And to say that we create the entirely of our own realities is a way this world will have people—especially marginalized groups of people–hold responsibility for the circumstances in which they were without power. Guard yourself against perpetuating this, and hold yourself tenderly and solidly if it is ever pushed upon you.”