This year’s Monthly Coffee Connections will focus on Christine Williams’ book, Gaslighted: How the Oil and Gas Industry Shortchanges Women Scientists.

The research in this book is a powerful commentary on the Energy Industry and its treatment of women – not only women scientists. ‘Organizational gaslighting’ is vividly explained being something usually not referred to in women’s self-help career books. As the author says, “This book is an effort to take women seriously . . . insider accounts reveal how male domination of this industry truly works, and what is at stake in attempting to challenge it.”

Join us as we journey through the findings of the research discussing its implications for women in the workplace, as we come to understand about what Christine became convinced of – “that women do not leave high-paying professional careers unless they are forced out.”

Last month we discussed chapters 3 & 4 focusing on “The Stayers” and “Voluntary Separations” in the oil & gas industry. This month we will discuss chapters 5 & 6 “Corperate Downsizing” and “Organizational Gaslighting.”