Whether your company or department has 15 people or 150, if you did not start your business with a gender-balanced team, achieving gender parity can feel like an insurmountable challenge. I’m here to tell you it is not.
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Horses are herd animals that have an innate need to establish a pecking order within their pack. They need an alpha so the group understands who is leading and who is following - essentially who needs to think about what. Very much like team behavior for us.
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McKinsey and LeanIn.org’s Women in the Workplace 2018 Study* was just released, showing that women’s progress in holding a more equitable proportion of company roles remains very slow.
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Why equity? Why not equality?
Equity is fair treatment, equality is equal treatment. If you start from a place of disadvantage and are then treated equally to a person with advantage, you perpetuate and ultimately grow the gap between the two of you. You need equitable measures first to close that gap and get everyone to a level playing field.
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One of the most frequent topics that comes up in coaching falls under the theme of figuring out when to fish or cut bait. Many people feel torn about when to keep trying to make a work situation work better versus deciding to move on. Moving on can bring a lot of baggage related to feelings of failure, even if that work environment was never going to be somewhere that person could thrive in the first place. If the person is an active leader and advocate for others at work the feelings get even more complicated.
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