by Christine Marlet | Aug 22, 2024 | All, Gender Equality, Women in History and in Law
In fact, when we talk about the “situation of women in the past”, we’re referring to a specific situation: that of bourgeois women in the 19th century.
Bourgeois because in other environments, women have always worked outside the home or in family businesses.
The bourgeois idea we’re referring to was that of the “devoted mother”, the “obedient daughter”, submissive to the man and with no aspirations other than marriage and little else.
From the second half of the twentieth century onwards, women began to change this idea and feminisms were born.
Just as I like to talk about feminisms in the plural, I prefer to talk about women in the plural.
Women participate more actively in society, in politics, in their professions, because they also have a lot to say.
In that sense, I think we’ve won.
by Christine Marlet | Aug 5, 2024 | All, Gender Equality, Women and Men Collaboration at Work, Women and Men Cooperation at Home
Based on our reading of the GSS data, there is no strong evidence of weakening support for the core principle of gender equality among men, including young men.Questions about the relative position of men and women, the role of feminism, the case for preferential treatment, the extent of sex discrimination (in either direction) are being asked with new urgency. There is much to learn here. But it should be some comfort that, up to this point, fears of a male backlash against gender equality are likely overstated.
by Christine Marlet | Jul 29, 2024 | All, Gender Equality, Women in Leadership
Our findings align with a growing consensus among gender scholars: What holds women back at work is not some unique challenge of balancing the demands of work and family but rather a general problem of overwork that prevails in contemporary corporate culture.
Women and men alike suffer as a result. But women pay higher professional costs. If we want to solve this problem, we must reconsider what we’re willing to allow the workplace to demand of all employees.
by Christine Marlet | Jul 28, 2024 | All, Gender Equality
The Paris Olympic Games will be the first in history to feature parity: 5250 female and 5250 male athletes are expected to take part in this major international sporting event.
But does parity mean mixity?
Not quite.
Taking an interest in the way sport deals with the issue of gender equality is particularly interesting for thinking about the subject in business too.
by Christine Marlet | Jul 22, 2024 | All, Gender Equality
Masculinity is not a problem to be solved, as Equimundo seems to think, but a way of being that needs to be channeled in directions that are both good for men themselves and for society. We do need a more expansive vision of what it means to be a man, but replacing the “Man Box” with a different yet highly restrictive and less natural idea of masculinity is not the answer.
by Christine Marlet | Jul 22, 2024 | All, Fatherhood-Motherhood-Children Education, Gender Equality
By denying the gender-based differences in the way children learn, we are pathologizing and incapacitating boys in a way that will cause harm to them and society over the long term. This puts us in a cycle of misdiagnosing and overmedicating little boys. Educational leaders must take steps to reduce penalization for masculine behavior in school so that the gender disparity in education can begin to become rebalanced, and our boys can once again thrive academically, socially, and mentally.
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