"As women gain rights, families flourish, and so do societies. That connection is built on a simple truth: Whenever you include a group that's been excluded, you benefit everyone. And when you're working globally to include women and girls, who are half of every population, you're working to benefit all members of every community. Gender equity lifts everyone. Women's rights and society's health and wealth rise together."
― Melinda Gates, The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
The Art of Active Allyship ~[172]~
In The Art of Active Allyship, Dr. Poornima Luthra gives us the answers to the question - what can I do. Through 7 identified behaviours, Dr. Luthra gives us the tools we need to take the first steps towards inclusive workplaces. With concrete solutions and real-life examples, she paints a picture of active allyship, one which encourages us to show up everyday as an active ally not to some, but all.
Equal Partners ~[172]~
Quickly moving from diagnosis to solution, Equal Partners focuses on what we can do, everyday people living busy lives, to rewrite gender norms to support a balanced homelife so both partners have equal time for work, family, and self. Mangino adopts an interactive model, posing questions, and asking readers to assess their situations through guided lists and talking points. Equal Partners is broad in its definition of gender and gender roles. This is a book for all: straight, gay, trans, and non-binary, parents and grandparents, and friends, with the goal to help foster gender equality in readers' homes, with their partners, family and wider community.
Fix the System Not the Women ~[172]~
Too often, we blame women. For walking home alone at night. For not demanding a seat at the table. For not overcoming the odds that are stacked against them.
This distracts us from the real problem: the failings and biases of a society that was not built for women. In this explosive book, feminist writer and activist Laura Bates exposes the systemic prejudice at the heart of five of our key institutions: Education, Politics, Media, Policing, and Criminal Justice.
Combining stories with shocking evidence, Fix the System, Not the Women is a blazing examination of sexual injustice and a rallying cry for reform.
Gendered Lives ~[172]~
Gendered Lives: Intersectional Perspectives, Seventh Edition, is an interdisciplinary text-reader that provides an introduction to women's and gender studies within a global context by examining the diversity of US women's lives across categories of race-ethnicity, class, sexuality, gender expression, disability, age, and immigration status.
Invisible Women ~[172]~
Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development to health care to education and public policy, we rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. But because so much data fails to take into account gender, because it treats men as the default and women as atypical, bias and discrimination are baked into our systems. And women pay tremendous costs for this insidious bias, in time, in money, and often with their lives.
Good Guys ~[172]~
Gender-in-the-workplace experts David G. Smith and W. Brad Johnson counter this perception. In this important book, they show that men have a crucial role to play in promoting gender equality at work. Research shows that when men are deliberately engaged in gender-inclusion programs, 96 percent of women in those organizations perceive real progress in gender equality, compared with only 30 percent of women in organizations without strong male engagement.
Better Allies ~[172]~
Read this book to learn the Better Allies® approach, level-up your ally skills, and create a culture where everyone can do their best work.
How to Be an Ally: Actions You Can Take for a Stronger, Happier Workplace ~[172]~
Every business leader today should be asking themselves these questions. Systems and processes have been skewed too long in favor of some at the expense of others, and things are changing―fast. How to Be an Ally shows how to take personal responsibility for driving change that’s good for people―and for business.
Allyship in Action ~[172]~
Julie Kratz, a leader in the DEI space, shares her personal journey while providing ten actionable skills to practice allyship in your everyday life. Each chapter ends with specific activities you can use right away with people you care about–friends, neighbors, your children and partners, family, team members, and more.
The Moment of Lift ~[172]~
In this moving and compelling book, Melinda shares lessons she’s learned from the inspiring people she’s met during her work and travels around the world. As she writes in the introduction, “That is why I had to write this book―to share the stories of people who have given focus and urgency to my life. I want all of us to see ways we can lift women up where we live.”