International Women's Day 2019

On the 8 March 2019, we had the pleasure of once again inviting our inspiring team and clients to the 2019 Women in Rotary’s International Women’s Day Breakfast, which celebrates the achievements of women, while discussing the remaining obstacles to full equality of opportunity, in all aspects of life.

This marked the seventh consecutive year we attended this powerful event and share its insights with a group of successful, professional women.

Once again, the event was truly inspiring with a fantastic panel of interesting speakers who proved to be both motivational and inspirational.

As in previous years, we once again wanted to share some of our collected highlights and thoughts on the topics discussed, to continue to shine a light on this important issue.

We have a trust problem

Years of inequality means that women don’t trust—more and more women need to put their hand up and engage.

You can’t be what you can’t see

We need to do something new. We all need to encourage more women to participate and to step up into roles—this is how change will happen.

We need to shift the power by giving it up

The most educated and empowered generation is the current one—these are the leaders of tomorrow.

Power will be re-distributed through struggle

If someone’s behaviour is threatening —challenge this and have that uncomfortable conversation, even if you don’t know what’s going to happen.

Flexibility is key to keeping women in the workplace

The concept of being physically in the office between 8:30am to 6:00pm will be a thing of the past in the next 10 years—companies need to get on board and innovate.

Wear some gender lenses and have empathy

Redistributed power shouldn’t be just good for girls and bad for boys.

Stick together and keep fighting

The Australian Economic Forum current statistics tell us at current rates it will take another 117 years to get to parity and achieve gender balance—we must not let up or give up.

Thank you to everyone who was able to share this engaging morning and I’m looking forward to more inspiring discussion in the future.