GenderAvenger Joins Forces with The Female Quotient to Advocate for Gender Equality

Glantz pictured at top had a long career in business and politics and was teaching at the Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge in 2012 after completing her fellowship The school was conducting their quadrennial review of presidential politics an event where campaign leaders and press attend to dig deeper into each campaign with 2020 hindsight The program culminated on the school39s forum stage quota place where heads of states CEOs and global leaders took the helm of the discussion in what should have been a place for modeling good behaviorquotThere were five white men set to speak and this was after the election of Barack Obama and that sent Glantz on a tailspin quotSkipping the review tired of all white men all the timequot she vented on the school39s Facebook page That night there was a blackout the event was cancelled and she posted another message quotGod heard our plaintive cry she turned off the lightsquotShe woke up to find her post had resonated with others there were hundreds of likes and dozens of comments She reached out to a friend with the idea of starting a movement to bring visibility to women and GenderAvenger GA was born Glantz describes it as quotan advocacy nonprofit dedicated to building a community that will ensure that women are always part of the public dialogue whether that39s on public stages 39best of39 lists on stages where there are musicians or wherever there is a public presencequot The mission is to ensure that women are always there because presence is powerGlantz had about 200 people on the GA email list when they zoned in on the Peterson Fiscal Summit logging the tally of men and women on stage quotand of course there were no women Next thing I knew they blocked us on Twitter shows a lot of power for 200 people to make that happen and from there I understand we were on to somethingquotIn GA39s first few years they would call out an organization that had poor gender balance on stage and the reaction would be quotWho cares Or there are only 23 of women in Tech so having 23 of women on stage is really goodquotThat has changed The reaction today is more likely to be quotWe39ll fix itquot Glantz said quotThere has been a positive shift to people understanding both the value intrinsically to women39s voices in the public eye and also to their reputationquotI always say you can39t treasure what you can39t measure There needs to be accountability GA39s success is rooted in its simplicity The GA Tally is an app that can be used at an event to count and record the number of women on stage and how much time they39re given to speak It can also be sent anonymously if that39s someone39s preference GA39s action alerts celebrate good gender balance and companies that are leading by example can be nominated for a stamp of approvalLastamp160week we officially announced that Glantz will be passing the baton to me and that together GenderAvenger and the Female Quotient FQ will accelerate equality in the workplace continuing to amplify the voices of women The GA Tally will be added to the The FQ Toolkit which includes the Speaker Equity Assessor Advancing Equality Calculator and The FQ Equity Index The toolkit takes a datadriven approach to empower people and organizations to investigate and assess levels of inequality and then act to change the equation and close the gapsquotI hope the community will grow the larger the community the greater the opportunity for impactamp8230and the more tools that will be developed that go beyond our bordersquot said GlantzShe doesn39t see herself as an equality trailblazer but more as a quotgender inequality survivorquot Referring to retiringmaybe not retiring she shared quotI am 78 I have been through many decades of notamp160being on stage and watching this happen and it39s very unlikely I39m going to stop I can39t imagine I won39t find ways to continue to take my experience and turn it into even greater advocacy I have three grandsons and I want them to grow up in a world where their expectation is they will share the stage with womenquotGlantz is unstoppable and ageless and I39m ready to take the baton I firmly believe in women supporting other women and empowering the next generation This is what she is doing for me We are building a network of networks of women supporting other women sharing the mic and giving back with generosity We will create many manyamp160GenderAvengers all over the world It will be a global phenomenon We will keep going until one day we will not need GenderAvengers because we will live in an equitable world with representationPhoto courtesy of The FQ Photo credit Melissa Lea PhotographyClick the social buttons above or below to share this content with your friends and colleaguesThe opinions and points of view expressed in this content are exclusively the views of the author andor subjects and do not necessarily represent the views of MediaVillagecomMyersBizNet Inc management or associated writersamp160amp160

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