Happy International Women’s Day! Here are a few articles that I have been reading today, with a few of my fav quotes:
Saudi women hope right to drive paves road to bigger freedoms https://www-cbc-ca.cdn.ampproject.org/c/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4565776
“Saudi women are stronger than any other women, because there are so many obstacles, and they find ways around everything,” she said.
Summary: Obits are more a reflection of who and what made history in the past, than who or what is making news in the present. As progress is made on gender balance etc in positions of power and influence, this will shift. In addition, they are doing some work to highlight people who should have been noted in the past, but were overlooked – a way to rectify the past, while working to change the future. If the NYTs obits section can find a way to work for social justice, then probably anybody can do it. 🙂
Enough with the talk about getting more women on boards. Here’s how to actually do it: We need an attitudinal shift, new sponsorship programs and women themselves to become more proactive http://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/women-on-boards-1.4566959
You can’t fix a problem without acknowledging there’s a problem. But according to most of the men disproportionately occupying boardrooms across Canada, nothing needs to change in terms of gender representation at the top.
The stats reveal the scope of the problem. But what’s more striking is the number of respondents who don’t even think we have one: 94 per cent of the board directors surveyed in the Canadian Board Diversity Council report said they believed the issue of board diversity was extremely important, but nearly 86 per cent of them said the board they were serving on was already diverse (and we know, of course, that most boards are not).
If anyone wonders why change is necessary, don’t tell them it’s 2018: tell them it’s good business practice.
