These ideas were first shared by @CVHarquail at a panel discussion on Everyday Leadership at In Good Company, a women’s co-working space and entrepreneurship community, in June of 2015. This list was updated by CV and Lex in 2016. Please help
We know that gender bias takes a personal and economic toll on individuals. But gender bias has collective negative effects which mostly get ignored. Too many good ideas with the potential to move communities, organizations, entire fields forward get lost simply because they happen to come from women. Too many good ideas only get heard when they are picked up by men (who don’t always give women colleagues credit) and much gets lost in translation. All of this is compounded by race and class.
If we know this happens, one outcome is that we struggle to follow a woman’s lead when it comes to doing things differently. We struggle to move from knowledge to practice and to women-led practice.
The Feminist Lean Project Canvas (FLPM) is a tool to help any leader craft and develop the scope of a work project so that:
(1) You can develop collaborative #PowerWITH other stakeholders, so that your project is co-created, supported, and executed by an aligned team of interested parties, and
(2) The work project itself incorporates an explicitly feminist point of view and considers how justice, equity, and system change can be added into the design of your everyday work.
Last week, a small but mighty group of us met at Idealist’s offices in NYC for our second Feminists At Work salon on “Building Healthier Nonprofits.” (Read the original invitation here). It was a lively conversation with many threads, some notes
On October 21st, 25 or 30 folks gathered at Idealist’s offices in NYC to talk “feminism in practice.” During this first Feminists at Work salon, several of us spoke about the unique challenges women face in the nonprofit sector. In addition to
Lex writing here, eager to share what emerged from our first #FeministsAtWork salon! Last night, 25 of us met up at Idealist (thank you Idealist for hosting us!) and ended up having a wide ranging conversation on everything from Kimberlé
Look! A listicle! CV here, unfolding a conversation between me and Lex as we planned the first Feminism In Practice Salon… Lex and I would love for FeministsAtWork to be an open platform for anyone who’d like to participate in
Join Us for Feminism in Practice: A Salon! Several of us are gathering October 21, 6:30 to 9pm, to discuss what a feminist workplace could look like and how we can use our everyday work to move closer to this
Here’s a quick introduction to the two of us…. From Lex: I’m a writer/editor and community builder currently focused on how work is changing, systems change, and all kinds of collaborative problem solving. After spending five years in the nonprofit
Welcome to our minimum viable political prototype –an online location to anchor our conversation and actions as we move to advocate feminisms in the workplace. Most business people are familiar with the admonitions of Sandberg’s Lean In — they ask
