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Future for Women at Work
This Women’s Day, don’t throw a party. Don’t hand out gifts. Don’t waste money on performative social media campaigns. Skip the flowers, too.
Instead, do something that actually matters.
Women—and all employees—deserve more than symbolic gestures. We need workplaces that see us as whole people, where work fits into life, not the other way around. Where well-being, career growth, and autonomy are valued just as much as productivity and shareholder returns. Where flexibility and inclusion aren’t just pandemic-era perks but fundamental principles of modern work.
If your organization is quietly rolling back Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) commitments, tightening Return-To-Office (RTO) mandates, or undoing the very policies that made work more equitable, then no celebration will make up for it. Because if your actions don’t match your words, we won’t buy it.
Every year on Women’s Day, organizations take to social media, host panels, and issue statements about their commitment to women in the workplace. But as we celebrate Women’s Day in 2025, it’s time to ask: How meaningful are these gestures when, at the same time, companies are rolling back the very initiatives that finally made a difference in enabling full participation in the workforce for those who couldn’t thrive under the rigid structures of traditional workplaces—where success was often tied to fixed locations, long hours, and social norms that excluded women and other underrepresented groups?
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