Why Gender Equality Matters in Business & Leadership
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Why Gender Equality Matters in Business & Leadership
- 1. Olwen Dawe 21st July 2016 Why Gender Equality in Business & Leadership Matters
- 6. “In 1973 Ireland joined the European Union (EU) as a laggard, with Irish GDP 64.2% of EU average GDP (CSO, 2004). With a relatively underdeveloped, patriarchal and familial social policy, Ireland was substantially behind mainstream European developments in social policy. “ Mary P. Murphy, Dept. of Sociology, NUI Maynooth • Female employment rate of 27% • Female civil and other public servants had to resign their position on marriage • Gender pay gap of 53% Forty Years of EU Influencing Social Policy in Ireland – a Glass Half Full?, 27th July 2014 State of the Nation?
- 7. • EU: 13 directives aimed at “equality between men and women” (1975-present) • Narrowing (significantly) of the gender pay-gap – c. 14% currently • Increase in women’s economic engagement – c. 48% (N.B. harmonised figure) • Increase in political representation – 22% of all 2016 deputies (quotas introduced in 2016) • Greater awareness and activity centred on the increasing the number of women on boards, in broadcasting, in senior educational posts and leadership – generally • State Boards 34% (quotas in place); Private Boards < 10%; Large MNCs < 5%. • Broadcasting (expert voices and broadcasters, harmonised across stations) – 28%. What’s Changed?
- 9. • We’re 50% of the population! • Better Business = Fairer Society: More representative, fairer outcomes and representative decisions – risks - non-diverse engineering teams (Washington Uni.); • Diverse businesses are better (and more profitable) businesses (Lehman Sisters?), more thoughtful (transformational) leadership, engaged and engaging / consultative – less reactive. Why Does Gender Equality Matter?
- 10. • Cultural Audits – change comes ‘dropping slow’! Everyone has a role in culture change, at every level. How are WE doing? • Policies and Practices (blunt instruments and soft measures) – quotas, effective pipelining (talent-planning) within businesses, small and big, effective childcare and leave policies (equalising the parental expectation), “blind” CVs (US and UK companies)… Making Change Happen… How?
- 11. Culture Change – Privilege & Unconscious Bias Visibility & Role Models Collective Awareness & Action
- 15. Women on Walls
- 17. Why Gender Equality in Business & Leadership Matters Any Questions? Olwen Dawe 21st July 2016
Editor's Notes
- “Irishmen and Irish women…” The Republic guarantees equal rights and equal opportunities to all its citizens.
- Nurse Elizabeth O’Farrell – nurse, widwife and member of Cumann na Mban Dispatcher, delivering bulletins and instructions to the rebel outposts around Dublin Based in the GPO during the Rising Most famously known for her role in handing the surrender to General Lowe Lowe protested and asked her to return with Pearse, which she did – photo taken shows her image gradually removed over time She didn’t feature in Michael Collins film!
- "On Language & the Irish Nation“ – radio address “the laughter of happy maidens, whose firesides would be forums for the wisdom of serene old age” [De Valera, 1943] Article 41.2 still regards a woman’s place as in the home
- Including employment and training, access to opportunities; social security; health and safety at work; discrimination Current policy includes equality in economic life, equal participation and representation, equality in social life, attacking gender stereotyping, equality in civil life [Equality and the Policies, Institutions and Programmes of the European Union – Equality Authority] GenderEquality.ie / DOJE (female employment figure) European Parliament – The Policy on Gender Equality in Ireland – Update 2015 State board quota = 40% Women in Dail, 2016 – 6% increase from 2011 - overall, 26% of first-preference votes were cast for women Hearing Women’s Voices, DCU Institute for Future Media & Journalism & NWCI
- NWCI – Better Business, Better Boards, Better Society Report
- NY Times piece on women in film – note view that ‘what gets measured gets done’
- Evolutionary forces have fostered inequality – privilege and unconscious bias – Rousseau suggested that the first person who claimed ownership of land began the process (have and have nots) Privilege – We can define privilege as a set of unearned benefits given to people who fit into a specific social group. Bias – has an important function (fight or flight) – 30,000 thoughts a day so assists in our decision-making (neuroscience) but can cause incorrect responses The importance of role models – you can’t be what you can’t see We can all be doing something to make change happen
- Filling the oldest dining hall (500 years old) in TCD with women! Old Guard versus New Guard