I was very pleased to write a blog post for the Healthcare Leadership Academy on positive discrimination in the workplace.
Check out the excerpt below and follow the link to read the entire post.
Like many women, I started calling myself as a feminist in university. I started realising that sexual harassment is real even if others do not recognise that harassment happens. I started experiencing discrimination based on my gender and I became aware that I had also experienced it in the past. I became angry and motivated.
What surprised me the most was the fact that it took me so long to see the effects of structural sexism on my life. I became aware that I had routinely thought of myself as less capable than my male peers. I remember being scared to put my hand up in class and not really being sure why. When I got my first job I remember not putting myself forward for projects and letting male colleagues scoop up plum roles. It makes me sad to think of how I was held back by structural sexism that made me think less of myself.
I know that we can do better. We can value women equally to men and changes to the workplace are an important part of the solution.
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Read the rest of the post and many others on the Healthcare Leadership Academy’s Leadership Blog.
