Five things you can do right now to help advance women’s equality in the workplace
But experts say that Monday’s observance is also an opportunity to talk about pay and leadership parity in the workplace. Women in the U.S. make an average of 80 cents on a man’s dollar, and the pay gap has traditionally been wider for many women of color. Though the current number of female Fortune 500 CEOs sits at a record high, women still only make up 6.6% of those chief executives. Women hold close to 24% of the 535 congressional seats and just 29% of 311 statewide executive seats.
But there’s plenty of work individual employees can do in the meantime — and Women’s Equality Day is a fitting time to commit to making a change.Men need to be allies. A national survey earlier this year by the gender-justice organization Promundo found that many men “overstate their allyship,” despite being in favor of more female leadership.
Make sure your team is gender-diverse; ensure that women get heard during meetings; and call out bias, discrimination and inappropriate behavior when you see it, Newman said. “If men say they don’t know how to help, they need to ask,” she added. Women’s Equality Day is also a good day for women to sit down and think about how they define their value and worth to their employer:
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