How do we address “gender asbestos”? How do we create fairer and more equal workplace structures and cultures?
I put forward three suggestions for your consideration. Firstly, we should stop trying to “fix” women. Up until now much of the focus has been on “fixing women” – on providing more assertiveness training, mentoring, networking and self branding advice. Instead of ‘fixing’ women, we need to realign or “fix” the system so that it works for everyone. We need to agree on what gender equality in the workplace looks like and then put all the options and possibilities on the table so we can work out how to get it. It should be our ambitions which define the methods and tools, not the other way around. Without a significant change in approach the only thing we can expect is more of the same. Secondly, we should recognise the importance of men’s role in promoting gender equality in workplaces. I firmly believe that we will only see significant gains when men start working with men to solve this problem. After all it is men who dominate nearly every institution in this country, particularly in o
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