The impact of climate change is global…and also gendered. The Shades of Equality Climate palette shares more about how climate change affects all of us, and some ways in which it also disproportionately affects women around the world. Read on to see how the Shades of Equality makes UN data and Oxfam reports more digestible.
Read MoreGendered disparities in health are solvable, technical problems. But the disparities won’t solve themselves; we have to push for their solutions in every way we can.
Read MoreIn progressive and social impact spaces, we often talk about our purpose in the work, but we don’t talk about what people might be losing in the course of our work. We think of all that we think they would get – Equality! Empowerment! Inclusion! Access! Rights! – but we don’t think about what they might be giving up in exchange. And sometimes, it is the things that people would lose that cause them to resist any change, even if it’s for a good thing like “equality.”
Read MoreThe United Nations’ 2020 Gender Social Norms Index indicates that only about half of the world’s men and women feel that both men and women make good political leaders. That’s in part due to Availability Bias - since men have historically been overrepresented in political leadership, most political leaders that people can think of are men, and people begin to associate leadership with masculinity. In other words, we often assume that the way things are is the way things should be.
Read MoreFrom the start, Bailey, Kayla, Kevin, Rylie, and Zhong Chen have been invaluable members of the genEquality team. Among other things, they've been creating original artwork, producing original video content, managing our social media, and writing blogs. Our intern cohort is truly contributing to our mission of activating equality and inclusion.
Read MoreOur language and the words we use are essential in shaping our culture and our norms. Even without us realizing it, the language we use can shape the way we think, causing us to accept a multitude of untruths. For instance, words like “firemen” or “policemen” can inadvertently lead to masculine default bias - the notion that men are the only ones who can or should hold these positions, as only men do these things. While that may have been true in the past, that language doesn’t reflect our current society or what we want our society to look like anymore. Gender neutral alternatives like “firefighter” or “police officer” are readily available, and are commonly used in many places today.
Read MoreWhether it is at work, at home, in culture, or in public, we all share the responsibility of advancing equality and inclusion. Our #ShareTheWork activation draws attention to this responsibility, and calls on everyone to share the burden of essential forms of physical, mental, emotional, and activist labor. These endeavors often go uncompensated monetarily, but are vital to the functioning of our society. We have to ask: what are the demographics of those who shoulder the burden of this unpaid, but vital, work?
Read MoregenEquality is showcasing at the 2018 Speak Up, Rise Up storytelling festival!
The goal of the genEquality Showcase is to share the seemingly-small, but super-meaningful actions that people take in their daily lives in order to move the needle a little closer to gender equality. By sharing these anecdotes and stories, our storytellers provide inspiration for the rest of us as we collectively seek to create positive change.
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