Until there are more female names on the door

Until there are more female names on the door

There is much research and many stats around the lack of female business ownership. Nancy, Amber and I are the voices behind the stats – we’ve all co-founded and run sustainable creative businesses employing many other designers. I think we have stories worth sharing.

A candid conversation between two women partnering up to start a business together. Raw, honest and ready to take on all the challenges, highs and lows of the creative industry. Welcome to the world Super Keen.

We recorded this discussion to add some context for where Never Not International Women's Day came from. We thought it was important to share our motivations and hopes for what this platform can become and how the world needs to change for the better of everyone.

To make meaningful change in workplaces all over the world we need to recognise that this is a cultural problem. We also need to recognise to show men what they can't see all around them. The norm. The norm that has let stereotypes rule and anyone but a privileged white male suffer.

Tea Uglow takes a broad look at the roots of discrimination. Seen from her 'side' Uglow sees gender as a language issue not a men or women problem. With explanations like why 'sex' is like phone chargers and how gender's like a sneeze, it's not expected IWD fare, but it's raw and from the heart.

Kelly was included on a 'Top 25 creatives in the world' list in 2020. She was 1 of 2 women. How fcked is that? Here she chats with her friend Diane about the many wrongs that need to be righted until it's Never Not International Women's Day.

shEqual is a movement to create advertising equality. Alyssa Shaw, Program Director shares why it's so important that we transform advertising into a force to support gender equality and end violence against women and the next steps in doing something about it.

International Women's Day isn't a party. It's a protest. Don't accept the first answer, don't compromise on how things are going to be, if it feels wrong it probably is. Join Helen as she lays out the world as it is and as it can be. Stand up – we can't be what we can't see.

Letting it go, staying quiet, not speaking out, not sticking up for each other – it will be Never Not International Women's Day until we reverse these behaviours. Nads has spent years learning how not to take any shit. Watch, listen and join her and Nicole on sticking up for ourselves.

This is just a little tea talk with Tanarra about the outcomes of a system predicated on the fear of women's success. I've been examining fear a lot in the workplace, and how it manifests, what it keeps us from doing, and frankly, the violence it visits upon us.

There are many challenges when it comes to diversity and inclusion. Differences of dealing with and overcoming them. She encourages us to view diversity as a strength, not a weakness if we're to create meaningful and impactful change. Jess encourages us to engage and lean into our uniqueness.

Our talk is simply a conversation between two friends. So much of what women encounter is seen as ordinary, banal, just the way things are. People accept it as the norm. We hope our stories help people empathise and understand the cultural sea change that's needed if we truly want to change.

Somewhere around 2015 the first of the John genre articles arrived, trumpeting that there are more CEO's named John than women CEO's in their entirety. For the next few years, these articles became as reliable as champagne power breakfast invitations in the lead up to IWD.

With women being fired at 3x the rate of men, it's time to stop promoting talent-less leaders who rely on charm and charisma alone. Confidence ≠ Competence. We all need to shine on the basis of our talent, then women stand a chance.

Constantly aware of being in the privileged position of the white male founder of a successful branding business, Tom is interviewed by Ve on the extra efforts to ensure that Nice and Serious delivers on being a business that strives for equality.

I've been thinking about all the ways women are labeled—in social spaces, at work, in the public sphere. My colleague and friend, Lizzie Bildner, had recently been posting about gendered products/innovation, so I asked her to join me to unpack some of the ways we "package women".

This is a good news story of finding a place to work that has empathy, support and a good dose of balance between work and what really matters in life. male leaders and employers have every opportunity to make an immediate impact on the imbalances – here's what that looks like.

Since enough men drone on and on, this is a short talk. It's all about flipping the question from "what should we do?" to "what should we stop doing?" and dealing with the underlying structural issues that create inequity.

I went for an early morning run in Amsterdam. Sunny, warm, I gear up in my shorts. Men catcalled me, whistled at me. Why? What in my outfit was provocative? Must I cover myself to run in peace? As women, we run for performance, to feel better, get fit, not to provoke or seduce men.

Did you know that there are almost 500 different versions of the name Sam in different languages across the world, across both male and female genders? Tea takes us through the challenge with pronouns and how they might not be a solution – and neither may International Women's Day actually!