A 30-year career was wiped out in one second over one word for a tech guy in London. Whilst a female mine worker in north America wishes DEI had never been brought in. And young men feel more adrift than ever.
This final episode takes stock of the impact that DEI has had; and whether companies are truly abandoning it - or sneakily rebranding.
The show asks: what’s a better way to genuinely address discrimination? (Goodbye DEI, hello DEO - Do Everything Obvious.)
This is the fifth and final episode of the series White Men Can't Work!
In which award-winning documentary-maker Tim Samuels fearlessly investigates what it’s like being a man in today’s woke workplaces.
And how a radical form of DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) managed to capture our biggest companies and institutions.
Costing billions, trampling over free speech, fairness and men’s mental health - all whilst turning out to be counterproductive.
IN THIS EPISODE
‘Sally', an electrician as a vast mine, rues the day DEI came in.
Prof Erec Smith, rhetoric guru at York College of Pennsylvania, take a micro-aggression quiz.
Carl Borg-Neal reveals how was sacked for using an inappropriate word during an actual DEI training session.
Psychotherapist Phil Mitchell talks about the wider alienation being felt by boys.
Lee Chambers, business psychologist, speaks to the exclusion of working lads.
Marsha Ramroop, organisational inclusion strategist, makes the case for keeping some form of DEI.
Stefan Padfield from the Free Enterprise Project assess whether DEI has become entrenched in HR.
Prof Frank Dobbin - from Harvard - lays out schemes that actually work to tackle discrimination - whilst
Tim unveils DEO (Do Everything Obvious).
Prof Alex Edmans at London Business School and therapist Carole Sherwood muse on how we’ll come to look back at this era.
The five-part series will reveal:
- The huge mental health toll on men - who are anxious about doing or saying the wrong thing at work
- The ‘reverse discrimination’ that men now face in their careers - and the crazy micro-aggressions that can cost jobs
- Impact on our emergency services
- Smarter ways to tackle discrimination that actually work
WATCH THE SHOWS ON YOUTUBE
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxjRscUKOADVnqIEGjfbMLw
ABOUT TIM SAMUELS
Tim has reported around the world for the BBC, National Geographic channel and Free Press - winning three Royal Television Society awards and best documentary at the World Television Festival. He is the author of the best-selling book on masculinity Who Stole My Spear? (published in US as Future Man).
Despite having been Race In The Media journalist of the year for his work exposing racism, Tim tells the show he fears he’ll be labelled a ‘far-Right loonpot’ and canned for daring to question DEI.
Visit Tim's site: https://www.timsamuels.com/
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