Do we need to pick our battles – and let some slide – to put gender equality on global agenda?
First Women Exclusives · February 8, 2016
The question of whether accepting inappropriate behaviour every now and then to further the cause of women in business was one of the most hotly-debated topics at the First Women Summit on 4 February – with the crowd and panelists being divided of opinion.
On the one hand, Diamond Logistics founder and First Woman of Entrepreneurship winner Kate Lester claimed we had tipped the scales into an all-out war. As such, women needed to create strategies and assign priorities to what needed to be done. And one of the weapons to our disposal was to pick our battles.
However, Charlotte Proudman, the barrister that sparked the debate due to her famous LinkedIn battle, suggested that not challenging the stereotype will do nothing to further the female agenda – it would end up becoming part of the problem instead.
To see how the two sides went head-to-head, read the full article on Real Business.
