Pushing the boundaries on gender parity is good for business | CEOWorld Magazine
Amanda Blesing FARPI
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Happy belated International Women's Day! And "girl" have I got something to share with you.
I recently heard of a male CEO approaching his female Director of Communications about their March publication to members. He wanted her to move the ‘International Women’s Day’ feature to the back of the magazine and profile some men in the front.
Tone-deaf at best. Bias or sour grapes at worst.
Fortunately for the business, his switched-on communications director was able to remind him of the unfortunate optics of such a move in today’s political climate.
Other concerning signs that I have heard include:
- Female L& D manager telling me that funding for all women and leadership development programs has stopped and the company has other training priorities that benefit everyone, not just women (fair enough)
- Female HR practitioner telling me the men in their organisations are "jealous" of all the attention given to women and if they (the male leaders) hear of another women’s program they’ll be very disappointed - so "what can I offer that will be non-gendered and keep the men happy?" (not so fair)
- Male manager insisting that the table at the IWD event also include men and to uninvite some of the women so men can go. And while I think that we women do tend to preach to the converted at women’s only events and that men should be there, it shouldn’t be at the expense of women attending. It’s not a zero sum game.
This reminded me of research I sighted a few years ago that found that when there had been an increase in women in an industry sector where the numbers of women were previously low, the incumbent men felt like they were being overtaken and missing out, despite the gender balance in the workplace falling far below parity.
I feel like we're heading back into that dangerous and concerning territory again with the pressure caused by economic downturn and uncertainty in the last year.
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4 å¹´Beating up the naysayers won't win them over, in fact it probably makes them feel vindicated. Why not put the male champions on a pedestal alongside our female champions and maybe the naysayers will see the personal benefit of getting behind the march for equity. Just a thought.
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4 å¹´Hi Amanda. Do you think this shits getting worse or are we just more conscious of calling it out? It seems like the last 70 years of the feminist movement has been one step forward 2 steps back. Thank goodness for the amazing young women who are inspiring the next generation
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4 å¹´It is amazing the conversations that we are still having or need to have...! Great piece Amanda
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4 å¹´Sadly, our scientific community has ignored for so long that we all carry "superior senses". Added to the already known "five senses". But, within the "five", INTUITION has been completely ignored for centuries. Because we have been trained to just: 'THINK! THINK! THINK!, believing that it will make us wiser, more intelligent, more accurate, more conscious about reality. While we've been "thinking and thinking and thinking" for years, confronting a "thesis against an antithesis to find the synthesis", we have realized that our final decision has ended into "a theory based on theories". Male of the world, we have to accept that. But, women, in JUST ONE SECOND, WITHOUT THINKING, we'll get the final resolution supported by reality by practicing this superior-sense called INTUITION. This superior-sense is a manifestation of true EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE... Operating from our HEART, an "endocrine gland", which had been considered just another muscle to pump blood into our system... Which is also true. But, our HEART is one of the SEVEN SUPERIOR SENSES, which correspond to our SEVEN ENDOCRINE GLANDS. As part of our THREE BRAINS: (1) INTELLECTUAL'; (2) EMOTIONAL; and (3) MOTOR-INSTINCTIVE AND SEXUAL Brain. To make our story short, our IEMOTIONAL-BRAIN is composed of "two" endocrine glands: (1) HEART and (2) PANCREAS... Tis last endocrine gland or Pancreas its been recognized as the emotional-behavior known as the GUT FEELING! Which could also mean the superior sense called "telepathy", when we feel the presence of someone we know ad suddenly our telephone rings... The voice appearing corresponds to the person we "felt" through our Pancreas... Also, we are waking on a street, we memorize someone we know, and also suddenly a person appears on the same street or a corner... WOMEN are designed better than MEN to apply "emotional intelligence" constantly... Why are "men behind"? Because we have been told for centuries to THINK, and think and thing, and we never could really develop that EMOTIONAL BRAIN, and "our emotional intelligence" which we all posses. Is it possible that a wrong education has brought us into many mistakes like this? JIM ROSS (1) www.methodacting.ca (2) www.rickyradio.com