‘Where are you now on the gender equality journey?’ Conducting a Diagnostic Review on the state of Gender Equality in your Organisation

‘Where are you now on the gender equality journey?’ Conducting a Diagnostic Review on the state of Gender Equality in your Organisation

One of the things we notice with many organisations starting out on the gender equality journey is the tendency to jump straight into implementing a series of gender equality related activities. These can often include women’s networks, informal mentoring, unconscious bias training, and a range of other initiatives.

While these may actually be great programs in their own rights, what we observe is that they are often disconnected from the business and HR strategy, they may not have the support from management, and they are not part of an overarching strategy aligned towards a more deliberate goal.

How do workplace rituals affect diversity and inclusion?

How do workplace rituals affect diversity and inclusion?

‘Culture’ is, in simple terms, ‘the way we do things around here’.  In workplaces, it means the ways that people develop and maintain relationships with their colleagues, how work is organised, who makes things happen, and how things happen.  Workplace culture includes the way that colleagues socialise, how and when meetings happen, and the rituals that go with being a part of a culture.  Rituals can include after work drinks, weekend outings, end of year functions and the ways that people are welcomed and farewelled. 

4 practical ways employers can support employees experiencing domestic and family violence

4 practical ways employers can support employees experiencing domestic and family violence

Domestic and family violence is a violation of human rights, characterised by the intentional and systematic use of violent, abusive or intimidating behaviours to threaten, manipulate and control family members, intimate partners or former partners. There is clear evidence that gender inequality is the primary underlying cause of domestic and family violence, via a male sense of entitlement to women.