Our March forum hosted speakers that took a personal look at how gender equity in the workplace in our region faces a bumpy but ultimately rewarding future. It is a path that has never been forged before and there is a need for guidance and mentors to help lead us. If we don’t want to wait 200 years or more, as speaker Carrie Douglass pointed out, to improve these statistics:
then we must exercise what speaker Yong Bakos called, “hyper-awareness.”
Want more information? Explore these additional resources:
- McKinsey.com – “The Economic Benefits of Gender Parity”
- Instyle.com – “The Badass 50: Meet the Women Who Are Changing the World”
- Unwomen.org/en – United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
- YouTube video, “Men Live Without Inventions Made By Women For A Day”
- NYTimes.com – “#IAmSexist”
- HeForShe.org
- Everydayfeminism.com – “Equality is Not Enough”
- Implicit.Harvard.edu – “Project Implicit – learn more about your implicit biases”
- Iwpr.org – “Pay Equity Discrimination”
- Nonprofithr.com – “Gender Equity Event Recap”
- How to Outsmart Your Own Unconscious Bias | TEDxPasadena
City Club thanks March’s forum facilitator Mike Riley (The Environmental Center), speakers Carrie Douglass (The Haven) and Yong Bakos (OSU-Cascades; forum supporting sponsors The Haven and PacificSource for helping create this important conversation.
