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organizations. At the individual level, resistance lies in employees’ fears
and apprehensions—in their inabilities to acknowledge their hidden biases
and the meanings of them. Yet, to end the cycle of oppression for people
of color, women, and LGBTs in the workplace means that we all must work
together to overcome these resistances.

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