Addressing Gender Fatigue
Addressing Gender Fatigue
Gender Fatigue Change Management Inclusion Resistance Good practices
Valérie Boas
Driven by a passion for transmitting and explaining, Valérie uses her 25 years of experience in companies, in France and abroad, to provide training and coaching. In both French and English, her two mother tongues, with a good dose of energy and humor.
Women and men tend to drift apart when it comes to gender equity. While women feel that so much remains to be done, young men sometimes struggle to see the benefits of equity. Some even consider that they, not women, are the real victims of sexist discrimination. In response, feminists and their allies are tempted to respond with further proof. After all, gender equality is still work in progress.
The problem is that simply providing more evidence doesn't work. Worse still, these efforts add to the “gender fatigue”.
Like any profound change, gender equity comes up against resistance, which can only be overcome by analyzing where they come from. Then it is important to understand fatigue, exasperation and anger, and to address them in proportionate, varied and creative ways, while focusing on dialogue rather than on conflict.
Valerie Boas, a multilingual speaker and journalist, has worked for Gloria on several hundred corporate presentations on gender equity. Building on this experience, and on her long experience in change management, she engages participants to rekindle their thinking and offers them keys to move forward with one another, on the road to respectful and sustainable equality.
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