Although things are slowly starting to change, women are still not represented in any great numbers in management and leadership positions. The top roles are still dominated by men. Despite evidence showing that gender balanced organisations are more successful, change isn’t happening as quickly as it should.
One of the reasons for the slow change could be that gender diversity is seen as a women’s issue. Women are seen to be talking about it. Women are seen to be driving it. Where are the men? Until gender diversity is seen to be a workplace issue rather than a feminist cause, men aren’t likely to want to be involved. Yet without men, this change can’t happen.
Men need to be involved in the building of gender diversity. After all, male is a gender, too! We can’t build diversity when one sex is excluded from the conversation.
But what holds men back?
Catalyst found that there were “two barriers to men’s engagement: fear of losing status or of being seen as part of the problem, and apathy — sense that issues of gender do not concern men.”
Conrad Liveris, in an article for Women’s Agenda, says that Gen Y men in particular, don’t see gender diversity as an issue – pretty much because they aren’t old enough or don’t have the life experience to recognise the problem.
“Gen Y men can fail to see any future limitations on women because many are yet to see women have to choose between career and kids or the systematic discrimination that halts a woman’s professional life – particularly at the ten-year experience mark.”
Catalyst research shows that the more men know about gender inequalities, the more likely they are to lead efforts to close the gender gap. And we need men to lead the change effort alongside women. Men are already in the right places and at the right levels to be listened to, and we know that other men will follow what their leaders say, if they respect them.
The first step in improving gender balance is to help men see that there is an issue and that correcting the balance will benefit them, too.
Gender diversity isn’t about us and them. It’s about balance in the workplace for the benefit of all. If men are left out of the conversation we will never achieve balance. We need their input and expertise. We need their leadership and we need their acknowledgement and understanding. It’s all there but while the focus is on women rather than diversity, we are automatically excluding men from the conversation.
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