This book shows how promoting equal opportunities can become an integral part of everyday leadership and what you, as a leader, can do to make it happen. It offers practical answers to your questions, actionable tools for everyday leadership, and fresh ideas for embedding equal opportunities in your organisation’s culture and development.

Tools, Insights and Inspiration: From A to Z

Previous approaches to promoting equal opportunities have largely focused on women, overlooking the crucial role leaders play in driving the cultural change needed for lasting progress. In their book, Julia Nentwich and Gabriele Schambach position gender equality as a core leadership responsibility and provide leaders with practical tools they can apply in their everyday work. These approaches can be adopted individually, regardless of the initiatives or management practices already in place within an organisation. As leadership positions are still predominantly held by men, the book places particular emphasis on their perspectives and experiences.

All the leadership practices presented are scientifically backed, including by the ‘Leaders for Equality’ research project led by the authors. The content has also been tried and tested in practice and was selected on the basis of the authors’ consultancy expertise.

Contents:

• Working Hours: Part-time work, job sharing and overtime – a shift in organisational culture is essential for their acceptance and successful implementation
• Gender dialogues as a practical tool for exploring similarities and differences and agreeing on ways of working together
• Fairness as a key motivation for actively supporting gender equality
• Gender Reality Gap: Difference between how male leaders perceive themselves and how they are perceived by female leaders.
• Survey results on what is holding male managers back from championing equality and how this can be addressed
• Men and Gender Equality: Ambivalence between Motivation, Hegemonic Masculinity and Patriarchy
• What motivates male leaders to champion gender equality and how organisations can build on these motivations
• Gender quotas: Exploring why they remain so controversial and addressing the fundamental misconceptions surrounding them
• Building structures: Gender equality councils as a mechanism for embedding shared accountability and distributing responsibility for advancing gender equality across the organisation – and much more