{"id":24502,"date":"2015-02-11T04:49:17","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T03:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/?p=24502"},"modified":"2015-02-11T05:01:29","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T04:01:29","slug":"24502","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/24502\/","title":{"rendered":"Gender Equality in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"
Elizabeth Broderick, sex discrimination commissioner, Australian Human Rights Commission<\/p>\n
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For a long time I was firmly of the view that increasing the number of women leaders was a matter of women\u2019s activism, and women working together. Yet while women\u2019s activism remains critical to making progress, if you look at the levers of power in nations and in organizations, they rest in the hands of men. And to continue to rely on women alone to disrupt the status quo is really an illogical approach. I realized that unless we worked with the men in power\u2014and helped them move from being merely interested in this subject to taking action\u2014we wouldn\u2019t see the transformative change we need.<\/p>\n

This is not about men speaking for women or \u201csaving\u201d them. This is about men standing up beside women and saying, \u201cThe promotion of gender equality in Australia, and the world, is everyone\u2019s business.\u201d It should not sit on the shoulders of women alone. It\u2019s about men accepting responsibility to create change.<\/p>\n

The first couple of meetings were a bit awkward, as the tendency\u2014human nature, really\u2014was for people to talk about all the good things they were doing. Relatively quickly, though, the tone of the discussion became much more authentic and honest. \u201cThis is hard,\u201d several admitted. \u201cIn fact, it\u2019s the hardest thing I do as a CEO. I don\u2019t know what the answers are; I\u2019m trying everything but nothing seems to be working.\u201d They all recognized that no one had the answers, but at the same time everyone agreed these were leadership issues that started with them, and that collectively, we could change things.\u00a0 Gender Equality in Australia<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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