How to Push for Policy Changes at Your Company

Women at Work

Harvard Business Review

Entrepreneurship, Workplace, Business/management, Business/entrepreneurship, Progress, Resources, Gender, Equality, Business/careers, Women, Hbr, Careers, Management, Business, Harvard, Human

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Want to modernize a program or enact a policy that would benefit women in your workplace, but don’t know where to begin? Learn how to build a grassroots initiative, no matter your job title. Two experts in systemic, organizational change explain the many different roles critical to sustaining a movement. They also share tried-and-true ways to keep everyone invested in the cause, aligned, and on track.

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0:00.0	Once your business gets to a certain size, the cracks start to emerge.
0:05.4	Things you used to do in a day take a week.
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0:21.2	That's NetSuite.com-womenitwork.
0:27.6	So many of the systems in our workplaces exclude or disadvantage women.
0:33.0	Think about unequal pay or a lack of support and flexibility for those who are caregivers.
0:38.6	We're not the problem.
0:40.2	Systemic bias is, and it's leaders responsibility to fix it at an organizational level.
0:46.4	But what if you heard about a novel program or policy that you believe your company should adapt?
0:52.3	What if leaders are ignoring problems that have tried and true solutions if they don't only try them?
0:58.0	How can you instigate change yourself?
1:00.8	Maybe you want childcare subsidies, or a comprehensive health coverage, or paid parental leave.
1:06.2	Perhaps you want an Ombuds office, or have HR do a pay equity audit,
1:11.0	and then straight now whatever inequities it reveals.
1:14.2	Or to democratize a leadership development program so that it's genuinely open to everyone.
1:20.1	That all sounds great.
1:21.5	But how?
1:22.5	Where does one begin?
1:27.2	You're listening to Women It Work from Harvard Business Review.
1:30.5	I'm Amy Bernstein.
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