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Welcome to Episode 8 where we dive into the Boardroom and how it's keeping anyone who isn't a White man at arm's length. We go over the current statistics for diverse representation in the boardroom (spoiler alert: they're abysmal), how White women have historically been used as the "next best thing" to a White man, and how you have to change the corporate culture in order to create a truly diverse environment. We also discuss the "glass cliff" phenomenon, imposter syndrome and how to lean into what you need to succeed in the Boardroom.

- Deloitte 2018 Global Report statistics of women CEOs, CFOs and on boards
- UK specific statistics relating to diversity on boards and in directorships taken from Barclay Simpson 2017 report
- 2012 study by Yale psychologist Victoria Brescoll entitled "Who Takes the Floor and Why: Gender, Power, and Volubility in Organizations" detailing how men and women executives were perceived differently
- April 2020 report in the New York Times entitled "It’s Not Just You: In Online Meetings, Many Women Can’t Get a Word In" for how men and women are perceived differently in meetings
- Jan/Feb 2011 Harvard Business Review article entitled "How Women End Up on the 'Glass Cliff'" detailing what the "glass cliff" is
- October 2019 article in The Washington Post entitled "These CEOs Broke the Rules at a Secretive Summit to Expose a Billionaire’s Crude Sexual Comments"
- October 2015 article in Fast Company entitled "Three Strategies For Introverts To Speak Up In Meetings" detailing how best for women to express themselves in meetings
- June 2014 Harvard Business Review article entitled "Women, Find Your Voice" detailing how working women can assist themselves in being heard in the boardroom
- Please check out our "Feminism 101" suggested reading list here if you're at a loose end for a great read from an incredible female author!
- Find out more about the amazing artists, Nubefy, behind the graphics we use here

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Welcome to Episode 7 where we're taking a moment to feed back on some of the interactions we've had around our Boys Club episode, and other past episodes as well, as well as "clear the air" about what the Dear Patriarchy podcast is and what we're trying to accomplish. We hope you enjoy this more informal episode before we swing back into our research-based, story-telling pieces moving forward.

- Please check out our "Feminism 101" suggested reading list here if you're at a loose end for a great read from an incredible female author!
- Find out more about the amazing artists, Nubefy, behind the graphics we use here

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Welcome to Episode 6 where we dive into Boys Club: What it is and the ways in which women and other groups that have been marginalised within our patriarchal social construct may experience it in the workplace. We talk about how to recognise if your own organisation has a Boys Club culture and share our personal experiences with it in the corporate world. We discuss strategies to fight against Boys Club but also why we should ALL fight against it from a financial and future-proofing perspective, if the gender equality argument doesn't quite sway you..!

- Boys Club statistics taken from the InHerSight June 2019 report entitled "The Boys’ Club Culture Is More Common Than You May Think" AND the InHerSight June 2019 article "6 Uncommon Signs Your Job May Have a Boys' Club"
- Further information taken from the Women's Agenda November 2019 article entitled "I’m a Female Leader Working in a Boys Club. This is What it’s Like."
- Strategies to fight Boys Club taken from the Harvard Business Review November 2011 article entitled "Co-Opt the Old Boys’ Club: Make It Work for Women" AND Forbes July 2019 article entitled "How To Navigate A Boys' Club Culture"
- Statistics detailing women academics doing more administrative work than their male counterparts taken from the Physics World May 2017 article entitled "Female Academics Do More Admin Than Their Male Colleagues"
- Statistics in support of removing Boys Club taken from the MSCI May 2018 article entitled "Women on boards: One piece of a bigger puzzle" AND the McKinsey January 2018 study entitled "Delivering Through Diversity" AND the MIT October 2014 article entitled "Study: Workplace diversity can help the bottom line"
- Please check out our "Feminism 101" suggested reading list here if you're at a loose end for a great read from an incredible female author!
- Find out more about the amazing artists, Nubefy, behind the graphics we use here

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Welcome to Episode 5 where we finish what we started in our last episode by unpacking how the Patriarchy affects women's views on, and relationships with, other women. We delve into why record numbers of White women in America voted for Donald Trump and how the behaviours & beliefs that lead so many women to abandon their gender (among other things) in favour of their race translates into the corporate environment. We discuss the Sisterhood and how to start the process of fixing women's fractured relationships with each other.

- Base information taken from The Guardian's November 2018 article "Half of White Women Continue to Vote Republican. What's Wrong with Them?" AND The Nation's February 2018 article "The Reasons Why White Women Vote Republican—and What to Do About It"
- Phyllis Schafly background taken from the Chicago Sun-Times May 2020 article "Why did 53% of White Women Vote for Trump? The Story of Phyllis Schlafly Tells Why" AND the New York Times' September 2016 obituary "Phyllis Schlafly, ‘First Lady’ of a Political March to the Right, Dies at 92"
- Information supporting women not supporting other women in the workplace is taken from the Forbes January 2020 article "Why Women Don't Always Support Other Women"
- Different types of female misogynists taken from the Psychology Today August 2019 article "12 Ways to Spot a Female Misogynist"
- Background information on Feminism and its divisiveness taken from the Forbes March 2017 article "What Is Feminism, And Why Do So Many Women And Men Hate It?"
- Information on how to be a better ally in the workplace: Harvard Business Review July 2020 article "How to Be a Better Ally to Your Black Colleagues"
- Please check out our "Feminism 101" suggested reading list here if you're at a loose end for a great read from an incredible female author!
-Artwork by the amazing Rei Bioco whose incredible work you can find here & here

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TW: Contains discussions of miscarriage, stillbirth, foetal/fetal demise and abortion from 40:00 - 43:30
Welcome to Episode 4 where we open up the densely packed topic of what the Patriarchy is and how it impacts us all on a daily basis. We discuss how it is believed the Patriarchy came into being, how it now translates into the world around you and who it impacts (spoiler alert: everyone). We unpack toxic masculinity as a symptom of the Patriarchy and how it influences society's perception of gender as well as discussing how the Patriarchy's modus operandi of "command and control" has a deeply deleterious impact on women's autonomy, specifically reproductive rights.

- Historical information on the Patriarchy taken from "The Creation of the Patriarchy" by Dr. Gerda Lerner
- Data on patriarchal design in society & representational gender differences taken from Invisible Women by Caroline Criado-Perez (as usual)
- Limitations on women's employment globally taken from the World Economic Forum's May 2018 article "Why Gender Equality Starts With a Change in the Law"
- Information on Toxic Masculinity taken from the Psychology Today August 2017 article "Why Patriarchy is Not About Men"
- Information on the Patriarchy's impact in the workplace and on relationships taken from the Everyday Feminism article "Patriarchy and How it Shows Up for Everyone"
- Further information on the Patriarchy's impact on the workplace from a global perspective taken from the Telegraph India October 2018 article "Patriarchy in the Workplace"
- Additional statistics and information taken from the Harvard Business Review June 2018 article "What Most People Get Wrong About Men and Women"
- Please check out our "Feminism 101" suggested reading list here if you're at a loose end for a great read from an incredible female author!
- Find out more about the amazing artists, Nubefy, behind the graphics we use here

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Welcome to Episode 3 where we dive into the burn out we're all experiencing at work and home, which is being dramatically escalated by the global pandemic and political upheaval taking place in many countries around the world. We discuss the impact gender and race has on individual burn out levels, what self-care really looks like and how companies can support their employees by addressing specific causes of burn out.

- Official WHO information on burn out
- Pre-COVID burn out statistics from July 2018 Gallup survey/report on Burn Out entitled "Employee Burnout, Part 1: The 5 Main Causes"
- 2018 article in the National Library of Medicine on burn out gender pathways entitled "Gendered Pathways to Burnout: Results from the SALVEO Study
- Pre-COVID statistics on womxn's burn out levels from October 2019 article in PR Newswire entitled "American Women Confronting Burnout At Epidemic Levels, According To New Harris Poll Commissioned By Meredith Corporation"
- Pre-COVID statistics on household chore split from July 2019 article in the Independent entitled "Women Still Do Majority of Household Chores, Study Finds"
- Post-COVID statistics on employee burn out from September 2020 article by Eagle Hill Consultancy entitled "Employee Burnout from COVID-19 on the Rise, With 58% of U.S. Workers Reporting Burnout"
- Post- COVID statistics on stress levels from September 2020 article in the Harvard Business Review entitled "Preventing Burnout Is About Empathetic Leadership"
- Post-COVID article on workplace burn out from the University of California entitled "Job burnout is a billion-dollar problem. Can we fix it, despite COVID-19?"
- Post-COVID UK statistics & strategies taken from Robert Walters report entitled "Burning the Candle"
- Post-COVID statistics on BIPOC/BAMER burn out & cultural taxation from June 2020 article in Fortune entitled "Beware of Burning Out Your Black Employees" AND
20 July article from Black on White TV entitled "People of Colour Face Burn Out As Companies Ask Them To Work For Free to Combat Racism"
- Check out Project Implicit to understand your own implicit biases and help you start the journey of "un-learning"
- Please check out our "Feminism 101" suggested reading list here if you're at a loose end for a great read from an incredible female author!
- Find out more about the amazing artists, Nubefy, behind the graphics we use here

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Welcome to Episode 2 where we do a deep-dive into sexual harassment in the workplace. We discuss our own experiences with workplace harassment (sexual and otherwise), how it has affected us and explore the current statistics for sexual harassment across  different groups, including BIPOC / BAMER, LGBTQ+ and disabled women. We also give suggestions for reporting harassment and how companies can safeguard their employees.

- Base sexual harassment statistics taken from Trade Union Congress' 2016 report "Still Just A Bit of Banter" AND the Equality and Human Rights Commission 2018 report  "Sexual Harassment and Harassment at Work"
- LGBTQ+ sexual harassment statistics taken from Trade Union Congress' 2019 report "Sexual Harassment of LGBT People in the Workplace"
- Statistics relating to sexual harassment increasing when the unemployment rate goes up AND Black womxn in the US reporting sexual harassment 4 times more in 2016 than in 1996 taken from The Independent's article "Black Women More Likely to Experience Sexual Harassment in the Workplace, Study Finds" from 09 July 2019
- Statistics relating to men's perception of, and reaction to, sexual harassment are taken from the October 2013 article entitled  "Perceptions and Attitudes to Sexual Harassment: An Examination of Sex Differences and the Sex Composition of the Harasser–Target Dyad" published in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology by Mally Shecory Bitton and Danit Ben Shaul
- Please check out our "Feminism 101" suggested reading list here if you're at a loose end for a great read from an incredible female author!
- Find out more about the amazing artists, Nubefy, behind the graphics we use here

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Welcome to our inaugural episode where we discuss the impact that COVID-19 is having on the lives of working women and what that means in a global and corporate sense. We touch upon 5 key ways in which governments and individual companies can overcome what is a potentially disastrous loss of women from the corporate space.

- Base article material taken from the Wall Street Journal's September 2020 article entitled "Sheryl Sandberg: Companies and Women are at a Crossroads"
- McKinsey Statistics taken from their July 2020 article entitled "Covid-19 and Gender Equality: Countering the Regressive Effects"
- Shoosmiths statistics taken from their 2020 article entitled "Covid-19 and its Impact on Women at Work"
- Harvard Business Review's article entitled "Why Women Don't Apply for Jobs Unless They're 100% Qualified" includes the statistic from a report by HP about men typically applying for jobs when they're only 60% qualified
- Caroline Criado-Perez: Invisible Women (READ IT!!)
- David Sedaris: Holidays on Ice (Also a must read though we cannot confirm if either sugar cookies or the word 'zeitgeist' still piss him off)
- Please check out our "Feminism 101" suggested reading list here if you're at a loose end for a great read from an incredible female author!
- Find out more about the amazing artists, Nubefy, behind the graphics we use here