1. Gender Equity and Leadership
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Gender Equity and Leadership
Top challenges and opportunities
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2. Gender and leadership – why does it matter?
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Gender and leadership – why does it matter?
What is your vision?
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3. What is leadership? ICPS Gender Equity planning
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4. Why Gender equity matters in leadership
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Why Gender equity matters in leadership
What are the key issues around leadership in Gender Equality in your organisation?
In the Sector in which you are working ?
Regional differences
A question of unlocking potential
Releasing full capacity
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5. Best Leadership - qualities
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Best Leadership - qualities
In twos 10 minutes
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6. World Bank DFID WEF UNDP
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Post Crash stock taking
World Bank DFID WEF UNDP
Women when in legislature tend to fight for legislative change which is of impact and benefit to women’s situation
Scandinavia – Gender Equity and impact in legislation, economic and societal equity
Board representation – broader more innovative, inclusive yet less high risk taking behaviours.
Localities – more equal boards find more sustainable options, and benefit streamed into the locality – Water boards Uganda
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7. Gender inequality Look at report for sectors
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Gender inequality
Look at report for sectors
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8. Economic performance WEF data IMF data
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Economic performance
WEF data
IMF data
Explore differentials on performance
Gender inequality indicators
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9. Reports to become aware of
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Reports to become aware of
World Bank assessment on women leaders
Developing leadership in constituencies
Recognition of ‘informal leadership’
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10. ICPS Gender Equity planning
What is leadership
The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea
Martin Luther King
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11. Who are the leaders? Duty holders Organisations Gender Beacons
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Who are the leaders?
Duty holders
Organisations
Gender Beacons
Political voices
Individual, teams, corporate, Nation States
Advocates
Business Sector – Corporate Responsibility
Local leadership and Voice
Within your teams – organisations
Opinion formers and thought leaders
Acquiring leverage, networking, alliances.
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12. Leadership Styles Democratic: the rise of the group
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Leadership Styles
Democratic: the rise of the group
Transactional leaders focus their leadership on motivating followers through a system of rewards and punishments. There are two factors which form the basis for this system, Contingent Reward and management-by-exception
Transformational – energised, inspiring, committed, raises personal and group performance
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13. Gender and Boards - Mainstreaming
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Davies Reports UK
Mainstreaming
Your organisation?
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14. Leadership – Gender as alternative culture
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Leadership – Gender as alternative culture
To watch
Gap Minder – Political representation
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15. Gendered aspects to Leadership
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Gendered aspects to Leadership
Why Gendered equality significant
Brainstorm –
Sectors – why it might make a difference
What are the blocks to leadership being ‘gender equitable’ – culturally
What are some of the questions you bring to this issue
Where are the internal/ external blocks
Where is momentum/ leadership for change?
Map your stakeholders in this work
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16. Building Resilience What is resilience How is it sustained
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Building Resilience
What is resilience
How is it sustained
Why is it important
Systems thinking around long term change / reversals / long term vision
Examples
What are you putting in place for your own development
What has your organisation in place to assist resilience
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17. Women Leaders: the current context
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Women Leaders: the current context
Women leaders are more persuasive than their male counterparts.
When feeling the sting of rejection, women leaders learn from adversity and carry on with an "I'll show you" attitude.
Women leaders demonstrate an inclusive, team-building leadership style of problem solving and decision making
Women leaders are more likely to ignore rules and move into innovation as a way forward
CALIPER STUDY 2005/ Caliper Women Leaders Research White Paper
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18. Why the Best Man is a Woman
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Why the Best Man is a Woman
including a willingness to reinvent the rules;
an ability to sell their visions;
the determination to turn challenges into opportunities;
and a focus on 'high touch' in a high tech business world.
Context :
Why the Best Man for the Job is a Woman : Esther Wachs Book
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19. Representation of women’s interests?
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Representation of women’s interests?
Challenge of differentiation between ‘elite’ interests and those of the wider population – especially poor rural women located in the informal economy
Participation in some of the same challenges – inheritance, land ownership, economic independence in marriage, (opening up bank a/cs holding credit) child marriage, access to education, health care, maternity issues
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20. Intersectionality Wealth Health Education Ethnicity Religion Rural/
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Intersectionality
Wealth
Health
Education
Ethnicity
Religion
Rural/
Urban
Elite Power narrative
Participation in Political and economic power
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21. Gender mainstreaming and leadership
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Gender mainstreaming and leadership
Key gains of Gender mainstreaming
Key Barriers to Gender mainstreaming
Gender mainstreaming Entry Points
Your organisation and sector
(Gaps / Need to know / Data / vision)
Feedback
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22. Great Leaders and their communities
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Great Leaders and their communities
Exercise – key values
Within ADB processes looked for
Self-leadership
Galvanising vision – mobilising aligning values
Post it notes
Whiteboard
What inhibits female leaders from emerging?
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23. Gender Equality #He for She
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Gender Equality #He for She
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24. Things that struck? Feedback Positive words about leadership?
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Things that struck?
Feedback
Positive words about leadership?
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25. Gender equality: men and women equal rights
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Gender equality: men and women equal rights
What are the gender tags which inhibit?
Social intelligence
Sexualisation - unattractive / too sexualised
Equality in pay
Bodily integrity – who owns whose body? (female safety VAW)
Policy and decision making
Educational rights – what inhibits full and equal access to education
Health care
Entry into formal sector
Financial support for business development
What needs to change where you are working? What can you do?
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26. Gender issues and men getting involved
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Gender issues and men getting involved
Males’ formal invitation to become involved
#He for She –Gender as a spectrum Defining by who we are and become freer FREEDOM – daughters sisters Males to be vulnerable – more complete version
Where are the pinch points in your community?
What high level vision needs setting?
Where are the key women stakeholders?
Where are the champions for Gender mainstreaming?
What is the talent pipeline looking like in your organisatoin?
What needs to ‘give’ for women to lead – Lean in AND
What do women require systemically in order to be invested with societal/ business / organisational leadership
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27. Reflection ICPS Gender Equity planning
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28. Education gender equality map
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Education gender equality map
93% globally
Literacy, business, higher education
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WEF Report 2014

29. Gender Leadership within your organisation -
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Gender Leadership within your organisation -
Education and opportunity - Stretch Experiences / Business, Political Leadership and rising leaders Networks (Homosociality/ #He for She)
Accessing finance (#He for She)
Significant stakeholder engagements
Coaching to strengthen resilience, bite back, focus, counter risk aversion, negotiation skills, create supportive back-up, build their wider support for domestic and caring roles.
What Else?
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30. Why Gender equal leadership important - How to leverage AP
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Why Gender equal leadership important - How to leverage AP
Political
Economic
Social
Familial / Community
Religious
Look at UNIHR plan for action – and stakeholding again
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31. Gender Leadership ICPS Gender Equity planning
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