{"id":3079,"date":"2021-03-08T13:16:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T12:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tlscontact.com\/?p=3079"},"modified":"2023-12-12T16:37:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T15:37:00","slug":"gender-equality-in-the-workplace-reasons-for-optimism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tlscontact.com\/en\/insights\/life-tlscontact\/gender-equality-in-the-workplace-reasons-for-optimism\/","title":{"rendered":"Gender equality in the workplace: reasons for optimism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>&#8220;I recently had to attend a parent-teacher meeting at my daughter\u2019s secondary school, conveniently organised for 2.00pm on a Monday afternoon. Preparing to slink out guiltily for two hours in the middle of my working day, I was relieved to receive an email from a male colleague, telling me that he would also be off that afternoon, as he had to take his daughter to the paediatrician\u2019s. Similarly, a member of our Executive Committee was recently unable to chair a team meeting, as he was on childcare duty while his son\u2019s day care centre was closed due to Covid-19 and his wife was working.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are two small, but immensely refreshing examples of the way in which traditional male and female roles seem to be shifting, in Western Europe at least. Having juggled full-time work and motherhood for the last decade, I am used to being the one having to postpone meetings or rush out of the office at short notice when one of my daughters has a doctor\u2019s appointment, or the school calls me to announce that they have a temperature. It turns out that my male colleagues are increasingly doing the same and it feels like progress.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>Extract from the article in English written by <br><em>Lucy Saint-Antonin, Head of Communications &amp; Marketing at TLScontact<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-advancedbtn kt-btn-align-center kt-btn-tablet-align-inherit kt-btn-mobile-align-inherit kt-btns-wrap kt-btns_b67f6d-39\"><div class=\"kt-btn-wrap kt-btn-wrap-0\"><a class=\"kt-button button kt-btn-0-action kt-btn-size-standard kt-btn-style-basic kt-btn-svg-show-always kt-btn-has-text-true kt-btn-has-svg-true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/gender-equality-workplace-reasons-optimism-lucy-saint-antonin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span class=\"kt-btn-inner-text\"><strong>Read More on LinkedIn<\/strong><\/span><div style=\"display:inline-flex;justify-content:center;align-items:center\" class=\"kt-btn-svg-icon kt-btn-svg-icon-fe_linkedin kt-btn-side-right\"><svg style=\"display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" height=\"14\" width=\"14\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"><path d=\"M16 8a6 6 0 0 1 6 6v7h-4v-7a2 2 0 0 0-2-2 2 2 0 0 0-2 2v7h-4v-7a6 6 0 0 1 6-6z\"><\/path><rect x=\"2\" y=\"9\" width=\"4\" height=\"12\"><\/rect><circle cx=\"4\" cy=\"4\" r=\"2\"><\/circle><\/svg><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I recently had to attend a parent-teacher meeting at my daughter\u2019s secondary school, conveniently organised for 2.00pm on a Monday afternoon. 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