The Scenario

In a conventional organizational context, the conversations about gender equity has traditionally been borne mostly by women and at the most, by a few male leaders at senior level. The Technology Services division of one of the largest global consulting organizations recognized Men as Allies as a critical component of their diversity and inclusion efforts in India. The organization also realized the need to have a robust training session to sensitize male colleagues and mobilize their active participation in enhancing workplace gender equity.

Avtar was consulted to create a signature training session to address this need.

What we did

We designed and developed a training session titled ‘Men as Gender Advocates’ that focused on creating an in-depth understanding about gender equity, how to adopt gender supportive behaviours and how being a male ally helps men in both personal and professional life.

Outcome

The ‘Men as Gender Advocates’ training sessions helped male supervisors, team leaders, managers and individual contributors in gaining a better understanding of gender differences, various challenges faced by Indian women professionals at work, impact of stereotypes and unconscious biases at workplace, fundamental gender supportive behaviours and how being a gender advocate helps them. The feedback for these training sessions have been overwhelming. Men as Gender Advocates training has become a critical component of the diversity and inclusion efforts of this organization, and is an ongoing programme as part of their cultural training calendar. Over a period of 2 years, we have imparted ‘Men as Gender Advocates” training via webinar sessions for more than 15,000 male colleagues of this global consulting organization.

To know more about our training program on Men as Allies, click here.