Please come on over to my blog’s new home, on Substack, where I’ve set up Where The Light Gets In to post regularly about how merit in organizations and how it often doesn’t work, which contributes to gender inequalities. Where The Light Gets In blends research, stories, and reflection on merit and gender inequalities, mostly in Canada but also elsewhere (because it’s all connected). It also offers insights into how we can all move the needle and drive change.
I’ve named the Substack “Where The Light Gets In” because I’ve been wanting to move the needle on gender inequalities, and I’ve realized there’s so much we don’t know. So I sharpened my pencils and got researching. Where The Light Gets In shares stories from this research, insights, and things I’ve learned over the years. Because I believe Leonard Cohen when he sings about the crack where the light gets in. My Substack is a place where I let the light in on gender inequalities by sharing what I’ve learned, in the hope that this light contributes to change.
Gender inequalities continue to be an (outrageous, depressing, and unfair) fact of life, whether at home or in the workplace. As women, we face a myriad of hurdles in workplaces that often don’t work properly, including the Mommy track, which makes our professional lives difficult, no matter what our goals. Organizations often sidestep how there’s more to our lives than work, instead expecting that we devote ourselves to work. As a result, they don’t just fail to enact merit properly, but also sidestep how employees aren’t just craving more work. This can penalize women and men who don’t devote their lives to work. For example, organizations can discourage fathers from taking paternity leave, which makes it challenging for them to do care work at home.
These are all issues that I’ll tackle in Where The Light Gets In. Please visit, and subscribe if you want to stay for the journey.
I took the photo, during a conference in St Malo, France. Why not?
