"Five Ways Men Can Be Feminists At Work"

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'But sexism and sexist discrimination still happens in every workplace, every day, and it’s mostly men who lead on making it happen. We can see this in terms of representation and organisational norms or practices. The numbers, still, very obviously point to the need for action—here are just a few, for the record. In the City of London 41 percent employees are women, but only around 5 percent of FTSE chief executives are women; only 26 percent of FTSE 100 board members are women (better than 1999, admittedly, when it was 0.2 percent, but still far from equal).
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1. Take responsibility for the patriarchy
All men at work benefit from what Australian sociologist Raewyn Connell has named the “patriarchal dividend.”This is the unearned social or professional capital that men accrue, in that colleagues tend to assume men are somehow naturally more suited to being or just are better doctors, lawyers, academics, or politicians. This dividend doesn’t just happen—it has to be reproduced and maintained for future generations. If men recognize this and take responsibility for it, then we can start to make positive changes to workplaces.'

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