Word: friskopp
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Dates: during 1995-1995
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...being told something entirely different. Two Harvard Business School (HBS) graduates, Annette M. Friskopp and Sharon L. Silverstein, link coming out to success in the workplace and overall happiness. Now what was that old adage about the impossibility of simultaneously possessing and consuming a single cake...
...Friskopp and Silverstein reached their conclusion after conducting surveys and interviews of HBS graduates beginning in 1990. Those polled were asked to compare their success in the workplace to that of their heterosexual co-workers. A majority of respondents told Friskopp and Silverstein that they felt that they were equally or more successful than their straight peers...
...what did Friskopp and Silverstein essentially do? They took gay graduates of Harvard Business School and compared their success with that of straight people who lacked an HBS education, an HBS diploma and the personal traits the Business School requires of successful applicants to its M.B.A. program. Given all of these facts, it should not be surprising that the gay HBS graduates came out on top. But is it because of their being gay, or is it because they are talented and intelligent graduates of a top business school...
...disseminating their misinformation about gays and lesbians in the workplace, Friskopp and Silverstein are encouraging people who are perfectly happy with being closeted to come out and reap the "benefits" of being out. This is dangerous, because many of these individuals will encounter hardship and discrimination as a result of disclosing their orientation...
...siren call of Friskopp and Silverstein is one that gay and lesbian professionals would do well to ignore. Many people who are themselves as gay or lesbian later realize that they were mistaken in their self-labelling. It is far better for a gay professional to remain closeted, leaving himself open to the possibility of later fitting in and leading the life of a straight person, than to publicly and vocally commit himself to being a member of a group that by its own account faces discrimination at every turn...