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Male Champions of Change having an impact
Male Champions of Change, an organisation created by men in recognition of the role they can play in the promotion of gender equality, has released its first review report, showing its coordinated approach to achieving equality is “beginning to see results.”
Grace Ormsby
The Impact Report 2018 “is the first consolidated review of insights and results arising to date from this strategy.”
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Key facts reported include that 58 per cent of organisations involved with Male Champions of Change have achieved gender balance in their recruitment of women, while 70 per cent of associated organisations “are actively disrupting the status quo with better approaches to recruitment, talent and promotions, having redefined the concept of merit, to help ensure biases do not exclude women from roles and opportunities,” according to the report.
Signees to the initiative include president Chris Maxwell AC of the Court of Appeal in the Supreme Court of Victoria, Ashurst’s global managing partner Paul Jenkins, and the secretary to the Attorney-General’s department, Chris Moraitis PSM.
In other reportable areas, it was shown that 82 per cent of participating organisations “have rates of women’s promotions that are either gender-balanced or are greater than their representation of women overall,” while 68 per cent have achieved or improved their gender balance among key management personnel since their first public Male Champions of Change report.
More than four out of every five aligned organisations have mainstreamed flexible work, and completed and actioned audits for gender pay equity.
The disruptive strategy “to accelerate the advancement of women in leadership and achieve gender equality,” recognises that “it will take sustained efforts over many years for the full impact and value of this work to be clear.”
The report outlines “the heart of the strategy” being “listening to and learning from women and men in our organisations and the community.”
All Male Champions of Change make a number of commitments to improving gender equality, including that they will step up beside women, prioritise achieving progress on women’s representation, standing behind numbers and sharing lessons learned, as well as through shifting the system, “not ‘fix[ing] women’.”
