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How to Be a Feminist Dad
This article at LeanIn.org gives five tips for raising kids with more egalitarian views about gender roles, including closing the wage gap at home and encouraging our daughters to lead.
QUESTIONS:
- If you are a parent, how could your parenting of children now affect how they will treat colleagues of the opposite sex when they enter the workforce?
- Discuss the effect of gender stereotypes in the home on adults in the workplace.
- What other tips can help improve gender equity in the workplace for the next generation?
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In the #MeToo Era, Raising Boys to be Good Guys
The New York Times examines some of the ways fathers can influence their boys in order to expand their views on traditional gender norms, which can affect how they treat women and girls in the future (and how they respond to sexual harassment themselves!).
QUESTIONS:
- How can the concept of chivalry affect how men and women interact as colleagues?
- How does empathy play into a workplace in which the number of men consistently outnumbers the number of women in a room?
- How does the concept of "swapping chores" play into your work culture? Are women encouraged to pursue traditionally "male roles" and vice versa. If not, why not?
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Fathers, Stand Up to Gender Inequality in the Workplace. Our Daughters (and Sons) Deserve Better!
In this LinkedIn article, I talk about how for most of my business career, I never made the connection that if I wasn’t advocating for women, calling out bias and holding other men accountable for their actions, I was actually hurting not just my daughter’s future, but the futures of my colleagues’ daughters too.
QUESTIONS:
- Approach five men in your organization and ask them about gender bias and what dreams they have for their daughters.
- Discuss some of the subtle forms of gender bias you have noticed at your organization. How could you engage a male advocate to help change these?
- Download and discuss the 10 actions men can take to advance women.
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