Women Who Are Making Work Better for Women

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

🗓️ 17 July 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

When you see potential for your company to improve in some way—whether it’s to overhaul an outdated policy, round out benefits, or to make jobs more workable, how can you instigate change? Three women who saw that potential and carried it through describe what they did at their companies, the results so far, and how you can follow their lead.

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0:00.0	Once your business gets to a certain size, the cracks start to emerge.
0:05.0	Things you used to do in a day take a week.
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0:30.0	You're listening to Women at Work from Harvard Business Review.
0:33.0	I made me burn steam.
0:40.0	When you see potential for your company to make jobs more workable,
0:44.0	to bring people together and earnest, to round out benefits,
0:48.0	how can you instigate change?
0:51.0	Three women I interviewed during our recent Women at Work Live virtual event,
0:56.0	saw that potential and carried it through to programs and policies
1:00.0	that are making a difference.
1:02.0	Maira Orndoff, a senior manager,
1:05.0	Capital One, campaigned for more part-time tech jobs
1:08.0	after she went part-time herself as a way to stay in the workforce
1:12.0	while raising four kids.
1:14.0	Becky Gunther persuaded Raymond, the advisory firm
1:17.0	where she leads compensation and benefits,
1:19.0	to give its employees free maternity support,
1:22.0	elder care, and mental health counseling.
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