by Karen Morley | Career Acceleration, Culture, Gender diversity, Leadership, Unconscious bias
The BBC increased its representation of women in front of the camera by 74% between 2017 and 2019.It began with the nightly ‘Outside Source’ program anchored by Ros Atkins, which went from 39% on-air female contributors to 50% in four months.In April 2019 there were...
by Karen Morley | Culture, Gender diversity, Inclusion, Leadership, Unconscious bias
The Male Champions Of Change movement is helping to share the responsibility for gender-balance between women and men. This represents a fundamental and welcome progression in promoting inclusive leadership.The promise of the male allies movement can be amplified if...
by Karen Morley | Culture, Gender diversity, Inclusion, Leadership, Unconscious bias
Fireworks on International Women’s Day are more usually celebratory. Scott Morrison’s International Women’s Day remarks instead created an incendiary reaction with a quite different result. His remarks show a shameful misunderstanding of the significant economic...
by Karen Morley | Career acceleration, Gender diversity, Inclusion, Motivation, Unconscious bias
It’s a bit of a Catch-22. To be prepared to be visible, to feel authentic and to advance your career is so much easier when you can follow women who’ve already blazed the trail. It’s so much easier to follow a path that someone has created than to forge your own. And...
by Karen Morley | Culture, Gender diversity, Unconscious bias
The recent Gillette ad caused a massive response for a 1:47 minute film.Is it the close shave we had to have, or one that’s just too close for comfort?The ad actively highlights the importance of rejecting toxic behaviour, showing men intervening when others are...
by Karen Morley | Culture, Gender diversity, Inclusion, Leadership, Unconscious bias
Small acts of advocacy are all it takes to make a social movement. The #metoo movement was for the 12 years prior to last year’s Harvey Weinstein scandal a very small force for change. It wasn’t one single event that caused the social explosion. But it was when...