A recent article on the diversity program at eBay noted that men and women experience the company in different ways.  For example, “a majority of women felt that their male colleagues didn’t understand them very well, though a majority of men felt well understood by the women”.  This is a well understood phenomenon of relationships between ‘dominant’ and ‘subordinate’ groups 

President Obama’s powerful speech marking the anniversary of the Selma march made a number of connections with the issues of diversity in the workplace