Gender equality – ideas to generate innovation and

On July 20 2016, DFP and the Gender, Leadership and Social Sustainability Research Unit (GLASS) at Monash University, conducted a forum on progressing gender equality in the workplace. The forum was set up to generate innovation and commitment to building gender equality in the workplace beyond ‘flexible work options’ such as working from home or varied start and finish times, that are now common place and have not delivered the necessary equilibrium. The forum featured a few equality pioneers and innovators to answer the important question –

If you could do just one thing to create gender equal outcomes in the workplace, what would you do that has not been done before?

The achievement of authentic gender equality requires a shift in the contemporary paradigms of thinking around work and also care giving. It demands the reinvention of what we consider work to be, what it looks like, how we organise, measure and reward it. Above all, it must be founded on the principle of diversity that is so often quoted as part of the Corporate Sustainability strategy of many organisations but remains in practice, elusive.

Below are some of the daring ideas pitched by our panel of experts at the DFP forum on how to generate innovation and commitment to gender equality.