Emma Hayes CUDE, CDP, MEd’s Post

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Be sure to have inclusive consideration for all situations. We often make assumptions about people and their situations based on stereotypes. You never know the magnitude of someone's responsibilities. Just because they don't broadcast their challenges, responsibilities, struggles, dependencies, etc doesn't mean they don't have them.

Andrea Giraldo Tabares

Global Marketing and Communications | Talent Branding & Engagement at McKinsey & Company

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This is such an important conversation! 🙋🏻♀️ I remember attending women focused workshops and trainings in the past and feeling disconnected and not represented because most of the speakers and faculty were always talking about being a working mom, returning to work after maternity leave, balancing career and kids but being a women in the workplace doesn’t mean only being a working mom and women who don’t have children are an important and big part of the cake that needs to be considered. Thank you Women in Data® for sharing and starting the conversation 🩷❤️

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Sadé Monique

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Absolutely love this, well said! 👏🏾

Karen Tighe

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THANK YOU FOR POSTING!!!!!! so true..

Shope Dawson

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I appreciate this post so much 👏🏽❤️ it’s true!

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Mary L. McCaffrey

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💯 Thank you for sharing this!

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This is such an important conversation! 🙋🏻♀️ I remember attending women focused workshops and trainings in the past and feeling disconnected and not represented because most of the speakers and faculty were always talking about being a working mom, returning to work after maternity leave, balancing career and kids but being a women in the workplace doesn’t mean only being a working mom and women who don’t have children are an important and big part of the cake that needs to be considered. Thank you Women in Data® for sharing and starting the conversation 🩷❤️
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As a single, childfree woman, this hits deeply. I vividly recall moments in my early career when I was expected to shoulder holiday shifts and longer hours because of the presumption that my time was somehow less valuable. That my weekends didn't matter, my time off was flexible, that I could stay 2 more hours since I didn't have daycare pickup or school lunches to pack. It's meant fighting against the stereotype of the "cold career woman" (because we can, of course, only be one or the other, right?). Pushing back against jokes that my career aspirations will eventually be tempered by a future partner who will "rein me in". I've attended women's workshops where topics included how to navigate setting up college funds and manage mom guilt, but never how to navigate trying to stay financially independant as a 1-income household, or what to do when you're told you've been passed over for a promotion because "they need it more...you don't have a family to support". Being a woman in the workplace means supporting ALL women in the workplace, and respecting how they choose to shape their lives outside work.
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This is such an important conversation! 🙋🏻♀️ I remember attending women focused workshops and trainings in the past and feeling disconnected and not represented because most of the speakers and faculty were always talking about being a working mom, returning to work after maternity leave, balancing career and kids but being a women in the workplace doesn’t mean only being a working mom and women who don’t have children are an important and big part of the cake that needs to be considered. Thank you Women in Data® for sharing and starting the conversation 🩷❤️
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As a woman without children this post totally resonates with me! Many women in the workplace are childless whether by choice or circumstance and can feel underrepresented or have imposter syndrome because most people around them are mothers and fathers. An important dialogue to open up in terms of the inclusivity agenda. #inclusiveworkplace #worklifebalance #womenatwork
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This is such an important conversation! 🙋🏻♀️ I remember attending women focused workshops and trainings in the past and feeling disconnected and not represented because most of the speakers and faculty were always talking about being a working mom, returning to work after maternity leave, balancing career and kids but being a women in the workplace doesn’t mean only being a working mom and women who don’t have children are an important and big part of the cake that needs to be considered. Thank you Women in Data® for sharing and starting the conversation 🩷❤️
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I completely connect with this. There are many women in the workplace who are childless, including me, who can be made to feel excluded from so much of the conversation about being a woman in the workplace. Through my various positions on boards, councils, and other volunteer groups that work to support women's equity in my male dominated field, I have often been the lone voice begging for a discussion on the demands on women and work-life balance that are not exclusively focused on life with children. The discussions on balancing work with child rearing is important but should not be exclusive to women. Discussions on reentry into the workplace after a leave is also important but can be made more inclusive by recognizing women go on leaves for many reasons. If we're going to be inclusive and intersectional, we need to be that for all, including those women who don't have children, for whatever reason. And, p.s., those reasons do not need to explained to anyone. This is a taboo that also needs to go as it carries its own burdens.
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As someone who spends a lot of time talking about equality for women, I’m entirely supportive of not just defaulting to working mothers when talking about gender equality for at least three reasons: 🐟We immediately exclude at least a fifth of us. In the UK, 18% of women have no children at the end of their reproductive lives and 50% of 30-year-old women have no children (ONS 2020) (more women are: not having children, having less children, having children later in life). 🐠We immediately excuse working fathers. Working women spend 30% more time on unpaid household work than men and 50% more time on unpaid care (ONS 2023). At the same time, for household responsibilities, women perform far more cognitive and emotional labour than men (https://lnkd.in/eb8uQeKN) #MentalLoad 🐡We immediately define women as mothers. I love love love being a Mum to our Firecracker daughter but I have different personas; and I’m sure being a mother is not the most important in the work context #MumPlusPlus Somebody* said to me once that “you are always brave enough to put the dead fish on the table” [it is a Danish expression to “put the fish on the table” (Fisk en på disken) that means raising a difﬁcult issue and openly dealing with differences. “Don’t hide the fish and make people smell it, or guess how big it is. Just put it on the table, and then we can talk about the fish” and I reflected at the time that the person brave or foolish enough to put a smelly dead fish on that table isn’t always popular as a result] … brava for speaking up Andrea Giraldo Tabares and Women In Data™️ … and for putting that dead fish out there 🎣 #Women_In_Data #DeadFishOnTheTable #GenderParity #WorkplaceEquality #WorkingMothers #WorkingFathers #ChildlessWomen #ParentingRoles #DiverseSkills #WomenInWork #EqualityDiscussion #BreakTheStereotype #BraveConversations #WomenInSTEM #WomenInTech #YouCantBeWhatYouCantSee #BeEqual #GenderEquality #DEI * Tom Velema
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This is such an important conversation! 🙋🏻♀️ I remember attending women focused workshops and trainings in the past and feeling disconnected and not represented because most of the speakers and faculty were always talking about being a working mom, returning to work after maternity leave, balancing career and kids but being a women in the workplace doesn’t mean only being a working mom and women who don’t have children are an important and big part of the cake that needs to be considered. Thank you Women in Data® for sharing and starting the conversation 🩷❤️
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When you are having conversations around equity, inclusion, and belonging, remember that women without children are not responsible for increasing their workload due to their choice or circumstances. Whether a woman chooses not to have children or by circumstance does not have children is irrelevant. If women with and without children are not part of your equity conversation, then where is the focus of those discussions?
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This is such an important conversation#Diversity and Inclusion in the workplace and in society.
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Getting rather personal on this post here - sharing a bit of my recent journey, and a big step away from following the traditional narrative!
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This is such an important conversation! 🙋🏻♀️ I remember attending women focused workshops and trainings in the past and feeling disconnected and not represented because most of the speakers and faculty were always talking about being a working mom, returning to work after maternity leave, balancing career and kids but being a women in the workplace doesn’t mean only being a working mom and women who don’t have children are an important and big part of the cake that needs to be considered. Thank you Women in Data® for sharing and starting the conversation 🩷❤️
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Stereotyping people affect our communities. Let’s start this conversation about people’s choices and societal expectations. Personally, I would say do you; society will not help you. Make wise choices that favors your mental health and overall wellbeing. Speak up when you are given extra work and ask why? Take your due leave. In addition, don’t pretend to help others with their choices because you want to fit in. It can be exhausting! Do you and be comfortable with doing you. Life is very beautiful and simple, don’t make it complex😊 Lastly, change your choices when you want to, you are a human that enjoys changes💐
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This is such an important conversation! 🙋🏻♀️ I remember attending women focused workshops and trainings in the past and feeling disconnected and not represented because most of the speakers and faculty were always talking about being a working mom, returning to work after maternity leave, balancing career and kids but being a women in the workplace doesn’t mean only being a working mom and women who don’t have children are an important and big part of the cake that needs to be considered. Thank you Women in Data® for sharing and starting the conversation 🩷❤️
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