CHAPTER ELEVENHow Do I Avoid Overstepping, Being Too Personal, or Creeping into Sexual Harassment Territory?

Dear Diversity Diva:

So I’m really good friends with this woman at work. We go to lunch together every day, we take breaks together, and she really is the only person here I trust. Only the deal is, I’m a guy. I’m not hitting on her or anything, but am I doing something wrong that I’ll get in trouble for some day?

Signed,BFF with a Babe at Work

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As of 2008, women were 46.5 percent of the total workforce in the United States. That’s practically half. So while some workplaces may be short on diversity when it comes to race, nontraditional sexual orientation, disability, and many others points of visible and not so ...

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