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ICYMI: Videos to watch this Women's Day

Here are some videos to watch on Women's Day. In this list, you will find insights, practical approaches, and outcome-oriented toolkits to help you take the right actions to create a gender-balanced workplace.
ICYMI: Videos to watch this Women's Day

On this day last year, we brought you a list of videos to boost your diversity and bias-breaking efforts. In this never-ending journey, a good tip has a long lifespan, so here's our list of recommendations again: videos you can watch on International Women's Day (or today) for insights, practical approaches, and outcome-oriented toolkits to help create a gender-balanced workplace. 

Moving the needle in the right direction: Creating a gender-balanced workplace

This video by People Matters brought together experts on D&I to brainstorm the outcome-based actions that you can take today to accelerate the movement of the gender equality needle.

Let’s stop talking about diversity and start working towards equity 

In this TED video, Paloma Medina, Owner & Founder of 11:11 Supply, which offers training and coaching that supports teams and individuals committed to learning and growing around equity and inclusion and personal growth, challenges our paradigm of diversity in the workplace and in society with this eloquent, humorous talk.

Three ways to be a better ally in the workplace

We're taught to believe that hard work and dedication will lead to success, but that's not always the case. Gender, race, ethnicity, religion, disability, sexual orientation are among the many factors that affect our chances, says writer and advocate Melinda Epler, and it's up to each of us to be allies for those who face discrimination. In this actionable talk, Epler shares three ways to support people who are underrepresented in the workplace. "There's no magic wand for correcting diversity and inclusion," she says. "Change happens one person at a time, one act at a time, one word at a time."

How to foster true diversity and inclusion at work (and in your community) 

When companies think of diversity and inclusion, they too often focus on meeting metrics instead of building relationships with people of diverse backgrounds, says Walgreen Boots CEO Rosalind G. Brewer. In this personable and wide-ranging conversation with TED current affairs curator Whitney Pennington Rodgers, Brewer invites leaders to rethink what it takes to create a truly inclusive workplace– and lays out how to bring real, grassroots change to boardrooms and communities alike.

Why we have too few women leaders

Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg looks at why a smaller percentage of women than men reach the top of their professions – and offers 3 powerful pieces of advice to women aiming for the C-suite.

In the video, she addresses questions like: how are we going to fix the gender gap in leadership? How  can organisations change the numbers at the top? 

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Topics: Diversity, #BreaktheBias, #ICYMI

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