Gender equality: What’s still missing? [webinar replay]
Lack of self-confidence, childrearing responsibilities, cultural bias, societal norms, and stereotypes are among the key factors still holding women back in the workplace, according to guests at our webinar on the topic featuring VoiceAmerica talk radio host Wanda Wallace.
Access a replay of the webinar and find what HR can do to help women advance, stay, and thrive.
We do a lot of things to advance the cause for women, but we haven’t made substantive progress, says Wallace, who is also president and CEO of Leadership Forum Inc.
At the webinar, Dr. Wallace looks at 3 crucial challenges for women in their path to success, and she discusses how HR can address those challenges to make a significant impact in the cause for women and other minorities:
- Getting, understanding and knowing how to act on feedback (e.g., what does being overly aggressive really mean, or what is executive presence?)
- Building relationships that will drive success
- Learning to get out of the comfort zone – meaning to lead without being the expert
Dr. Wallace is an executive coach, consultant, author, educator and host of Out of the Comfort Zone, a radio show on VoiceAmerica Business.
Advantage Performance Group Partner Carlos Vargas, based in Miami, facilitated the webinar along with Dr. Wallace.
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Early respondents signing up to participate listed these issues when asked: What do you think is still holding women back most?
- business policies and work structure
- childrearing responsibilities
- confidence and self assurance
- conscious and unconscious bias
- cultural bias deeply rooted in history
- double standards for things like assertiveness
- expectations of work/life balance
- exposure and opportunity
- failure to appreciate our own abilities and contributions
- fear
- gender bias
- historical stereotypes
- lack of affordable childcare or support for mothers in the workplace
- lack of a strong advocates for women to reach out and do things differently
- lack of assertiveness
- lack of confidence in their skills and abilities
- lack of flexibility in workplaces
- lack of sponsorship
- lack of women role models at the top levels
- male leaders not recognizing the influence and impact of female leadership
- men still rule
- networking skills vs. men's
- old sterotype attitudes
- opportunties to compete
- perception bias and lagging opportunities
- perhaps themselves and other women
- reluctance to ask for credit for our work or ask for equal pay
- rules and regulations
- self confidence
- societal norms
- social constructs of leadership, and other women
- the respect men have for us, and our ideas, in the workplace.
- toxic masculinity and gendered roles in the workplace
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