How to Promote Gender Equity
“A world full of empowered women isn’t one where men are marginalized. It’s a world where everyone thrives.” - Purnima Mane
What is gender equity? How do we achieve it? Here are three of my top ways to promote gender equity in the workplace.
Sponsor, champion, and advocate for women. Speak up their names in rooms where they are not in. Use your clout to ensure women enter spaces where they should belong and get paid for it.
Speak up. When you see something problematic - a woman is spoken over in a meeting, mocked on an email, not invited to an event - speak up about it.
Remember intersectionality. The challenges of gender equity in the workplace are amplified when the woman is from a marginalized commnunity. Find solutions to start but one solution will not fit all women.
Want more tips?
Do the work
This week, I commit to support initiatives that work towards gender equity and being an ally by challenging stereotypes when I encounter them and encouraging my colleagues to do the same.
Spread the word
If you want to keep going
Work. Change. Lead.: How to Build an Inclusive Workplace That Works for Women
This one-of-a-kind design thinking workshop will explain the practical steps you can take to build real gender equity at work. From recruiting to feedback to "glamour" work to managing teams to generational conflict to succession planning to promoting the next group of women leaders, you will work with me to build out new habits for real systemic change. What are the challenges we see? What is the root cause of each challenge? How can we best design a solution that works? And how can we get necessary stakeholders on board to implement our solution? Let's answer these questions and build a workplace that works for women.
