77% of consumers say they prefer to buy products from a company that practices gender equality. Do You? Gender Fair informs consumers which companies demonstrate a real and substantial commitment to women’s equality as employees, consumers, and citizens. Companies are analyzed on metrics derived from the UN Women's Empowerment Principles and a small portion are certified and awarded the Gender Fair Mark. Does your company meet the standard? Does your shopping cart?
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Leading women from leading brands at Bentonville Film Festival on the importance of purposefully choosing brand images that BREAK stereotypes. Why? Women still say 70% of ads don't represent them. Stereotypes hurt all viewers & consumers.
Joan Toth (Network of Executive Women), Kristi Faulkner (Womenkind), Danica Breton Cialone ( Johnson & Johnson), Sheila Gamble (Kellogg's), Sarah Collins (Mars, Incorporated), and Gina Boswell (Unilever)
#IShopGenderFair - do you?
Postcards for Protesters
“The role that sexism plays in politics is shrinking, but it’s still too substantial to ignore.”
Look what we’ve been spotting this morning! We’re delegates at #WITW and offered up these totes to remind women of their #buyingpower. I WANTED #GENDEREQUALITY SO I BOUGHT IT. You can, too. #IShopGenderFair #womenintheword #begenderfair
If you work for an airline and want to see it become Gender Fair, get in touch. If you’re a consumer, start providing feedback that demands fairness and equality every time you complain about exorbitant fees, too.
https://us10.campaign-archive.com/?u=8823b23af7313ce666b8a984a&id=bb9254e659
How the major U.S. airlines perform on the Gender Fair Index, and what we can do about it.
"Everyone thinks women should be thrilled when we get crumbs. I want women to have the cake, the icing and the cherry on top, too." — Billie Jean King
READ: When Women Stop Being Good Sports http://eepurl.com/gkTMC5
P&G is certified Gender Fair and today it announced reaching a 2020 goal of delivering 15 billion liters of clean drinking water to families across the globe one whole year early - to celebrate, its new goal is 25 billion by 2025
From Kristi Faulkner and the ForbesWomen desk: **10** Lessons from Female Founders To Boost Your Business
Success has 100% to do with how much support women have access to. Here's a good place to start.
Come say hi at Booth #9 at #catalystawards2019 (and learn how you can #begenderfair: women leaders, family-friendly policies, add without stereotypes and philanthropy (and earn 100 points!)
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Gender Fair rates companies on their fairness practices for gender, diversity, philanthropy, and leadership. The Gender Fair mark makes it easy to know which companies value equality – and which don't.
It is irony writ large that the products women are most passionate about are often made and sold by companies who are hostile to their own female talent. That's true of wineries, but this one working hard to change the ratio of women in wine: J. Lohr Vineyards & Wines
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristifaulkner/2019/01/23/wines-glass-ceiling-and-the-winery-working-to-shatter-it/#7cfefe73314a
What one visionary winery is doing to foster women's success in the wine business.
Congratulations to Eli Lilly and Company on their 2019 Catalyst Award win for initiatives that help create safe and inclusive workplaces where women can advance. Their holistic approach to mapping the employee experience gives their employees a voice and a passion to strive for more.
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Venture Semi-Finalist, Gender Fair, helps you identify which companies value equality. Their app supports you in finding companies that currently practice gender fairness, and ultimately motivates others to meet these standards. http://bit.ly/GenderFairSheEOSemi
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Venture Semi-Finalist, Gender Fair, helps you identify which companies value equality. Their app supports you in finding companies that currently practice gender fairness, and ultimately motivates others to meet these standards. http://bit.ly/GenderFairSheEOSemi
We’ve put together a completely editorial gift guide from certified and high-scoring companies on the Gender Fair Index. Shop happy this season knowing you're supporting brands who also support women.
When you buy make it have a reason, like supporting companies who share your values for fairness and equality.
May the outcry at Google be heard by every female employee at every company in America. Because chances are, they have it worse than the women at Google.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristifaulkner/2018/11/02/what-the-google-walkout-could-tell-you-about-your-company/#3954fd2c19b4
Only 16% of American companies analyzed meet the benchmark for fair gender policies. Chances are, your company is worse for women than Google.
Today is #LatinaEqualPay, the last recognized Equal Pay Day of the year. That’s 305 additional days Hispanic and Latinx women, earning $0.53 to the $1, have to work to match what the average white, non-Hispanic man earns the *previous* year.
Tomorrow is the last recognized equal pay day, and it’s for Hispanic and Latinx women
Why didn’t they just fire him with nothing, you ask? It’s a reasonable question, and Google has at least three tried-and-true reasons to believe it’s more important to pay nearly a hundred million dollars to the abuser rather than, say, publicly disavow his behavior, press charges, or equally compensate the women he is credibly accused of abusing.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristifaulkner/2018/10/29/three-reasons-google-has-to-pay-the-stupid-money-to-sexual-harassers/#8db5d0847208
Let the great rumpus (and innovation) start!
“I was a teenager in Texas when Anita Hill took the stand, and from what I was told, the woman speaking to congress for days was only hurting herself. I knew everything she said was true, but everyone around me said something else: Boys will be boys. It’s locker room talk. She shouldn’t make a fuss. This is what girls like me were taught.” - Kristi Faulkner, Womenkind and Gender Fair Founding Partner
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristifaulkner/2018/01/19/our-unity-empowers-us-our-spending-drives-change/#19399f81765b
Women’s indifference made us complicit, kept us quiet, and kept us down. Now our solidarity, and our spending power, will change the world.
If talent rules and meritocracy prevails, women are trapped in a quandary. Because talented women can’t prove their value on a board if they’re not offered a seat in the first place...
Are women #CEOs balancing career and motherhood giving new meaning to the term "mommy brain"?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristifaulkner/2018/09/11/lead-like-a-mom-why-women-ceos-have-a-competitive-edge/
Soft skills like empathy and collaboration are more vital to business than ever, and the inherent leadership skills of mothers give them a natural competitive edge.
So what's the new "truth" at Uber?
Uber has transformed its logo. But has it transformed its culture?
Don't forget to register for tonight's Take The Lead Women virtual Happy Hour with our CEO Johanna Zeilstra and the brilliant Kamala Lopez, hosted by Gloria Feldt and Reshma Gopaldas from SheKnowsMedia!
Take The Lead Presents: Virtual Happy Hour series changes the narrative about women and leadership from problems to solutions. Pocketbooks, Policy, and Power Tools: 3 Paths to Gender Parity Join the conversation Wednesday, September 12th at 6:30 pm ET with inspiring role model women. You’ll hear t...
Don't miss this wonderful (and FREE) opportunity with our #CEO Johanna Zeilstra and Kamala Lopez
Want to learn THREE simple ways you can propel yourself and other women to gender parity? Join us on 9/12 at 6:30 ET for a lively discussion with Kamala Lopez of Equal Means Equal and Johana Zeilstra of Gender Fair co-hosted by Gloria Feldt and Reshma Gopaldas of SheKnows Media https://buff.ly/2MOxdjb
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With conference season just around the corner, things can get hectic. The key to effective (and efficient) networking? Plan ahead. http://on.forbes.com/6187DxUQ5
Johnson & Johnson is empowering women to change the trajectory of health for humanity. And they’re now Gender Fair-certified!
http://www.genderfair.com/gf_partners/jnj/
Johnson & Johnson is empowering women to change the trajectory of health for humanity The commitment to women and diversity at Johnson & Johnson isn’t a modern concept. When the company opened in 1886, 8 of the 14 initial employees were women. Wanda Bryant Hope, Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer...
Companies that are Gender Fair-certified have best-in-class fairness practices and join us as partners in accelerating equality. Welcome Johnson & Johnson, the world’s largest and most broadly-based health care company!
A century is a very long time to wait. We don't want to.
https://us10.campaign-archive.com/?u=8823b23af7313ce666b8a984a&id=0465883cdf
Sunday is Women’s Equality Day, and we’re celebrating one important amendment while waiting for another
"Diversity is strength. Difference is a teacher. Fear difference, you learn nothing." - Hannah Gadsby
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1. https://hbr.org/2011/03/shhh-listening-is-critical-in
2. http://fortune.com/2017/06/07/fortune-500-diversity/
3. Center for Work-Life Study, 2010 [https://www.forbes.com/sites/kathycaprino/2011/11/28/busting-the-myth-that-women-arent-as-ambitious-as-men/#7856cdec67da]
4. Gender Fair
5. Cone CSR Study, 2017: http://www.conecomm.com/research-blog/2017-csr-study
6. Gender Equality in the Executive Ranks: A Paradox- The Journey to 2030, Weber Shandwich / KRC Research https://www.webershandwick.com/news/gender-equality-in-the-executive-ranks/
Music: www.bensound.com
It’s an inequality that hits women at two distinct levels. And it’s nearly *doubled* in just the last four years.
This just in: AnitaB.org announced the 10 finalists for their inaugural PitcHER competition, and our founder Amy-Willard Cross is one of them!
Details: https://anitab.org/news/announcements/2018-anitab-org-pitcher-finalists-announced/
Hopefully it can help to make a dent against the $.63 to $1 wage gap for black American women (compared to what white, non-Hispanic men make)
When it comes to black women’s success and potential, the story is one of underestimated richness and underdeveloped but rapidly emerging power. Check out this negotiation advice from 20 black women leaders http://on.forbes.com/6180DtLNA
Women not only represent half the population but drive 70 to 80 percent of consumer purchases. If only for the sake of profits, women should not be excluded from the process of imagining and creating new products.
If only for the sake of profits, women should not be excluded from the process of imagining and creating new products.
Has locker room talk evolved with the times?
How the ancient code of chivalry can accelerate the gender fair movement.
Do I want to be authentic, or do I want to fit in?
Real inclusion considers the choice of actions from the majority and minority sides, and other great insights from Jesus Mantas of IBM
In the IBM Think2018 event in Las Vegas, Jesus Mantas shares in this TED-style talk his diversity journey, for the first time openly in public. He authentica...
Well we know what we're doing in December.
Her story made history. 🏛
Felicity Jones is Ruth Bader Ginsburg in On The Basis Of Sex Film – in theaters this Christmas. Watch the trailer now.
#MondayMotivation
#WednesdayWisdom
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Whether you are a part-time remote worker, or enjoy full time #WFH status, here are some tips on how to cultivate a greater sense of purpose throughout your day:
Rethink the glass ceiling trope altogether, and pursue these strategies for making your workplace more diverse and fair. #begenderfair
If your company aspires to be one of the very best for women and diversity, activate these five strategies from one of the most successful firms in the world.
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Congratulations to Eli Lilly and Company on their 2019 Catalyst Award win for initiatives that help create safe and inclusive workplaces where women can advance. Their holistic approach to mapping the employee experience gives their employees a voice and a passion to strive for more.
"Diversity is strength. Difference is a teacher. Fear difference, you learn nothing." - Hannah Gadsby ------------------ 1. https://hbr.org/2011/03/shhh-listening-is-critical-in 2. http://fortune.com/2017/06/07/fortune-500-diversity/ 3. Center for Work-Life Study, 2010 [https://www.forbes.com/sites/kathycaprino/2011/11/28/busting-the-myth-that-women-arent-as-ambitious-as-men/#7856cdec67da] 4. Gender Fair 5. Cone CSR Study, 2017: http://www.conecomm.com/research-blog/2017-csr-study 6. Gender Equality in the Executive Ranks: A Paradox- The Journey to 2030, Weber Shandwich / KRC Research https://www.webershandwick.com/news/gender-equality-in-the-executive-ranks/ Music: www.bensound.com
We’re ready for #TED2018. Follow us as we explore attitudes about fairness and equality in our relationships, in our families and in our work. #genderequality #genderparity #genderequity #equalpayday #womenempowerment #fairness #equalmeansequal #begenderfair
Let's celebrate International Women's Day by doing just that: stop spending our time, money, and skills with companies that quietly exploit us, and start supporting those invested in fairness for all.
This. week. is. done.
Don't shop for the holidays before checking this list! www.genderfair.com
Want to honor Women's Equality Day? Make change from your dollars by buying from companies who make a real commitment to gender equality for employees, consumers, and citizens.
Create change from dollars and share this if you take the #IBuyGenderFair pledge: support companies that support women with a real commitment to gender equality.
Powerful! Jamila Lyiscott unpacks what it means to be “articulate.”
