This Sunday will be International Women's Day, and to celebrate the push for more rights and achievements across the globe, I’m shifting my focus from technology to something more personal, as there is a legacy that we as individuals and as an industry can consider in terms of pay parity, equality and diversity for women.
To foster real change, there are five simple things I suggest for anyone reading this today:
I hope we can put these five recommendations into practice, and participate in activities and organizations that educate and create networking opportunities. It’s for this reason I’ve become an Executive Sponsor of Oracle Women Lead (OWL), a pioneering organization whose mission it is to develop, engage, and empower current and future generations of female leaders.
Please check out OWL’s Emerging Leader Summit, the most recent of which took place in Singapore.
Also visit: @OracleWomenLead on Twitter and get involved by contacting maryellen.kassotakis@oracle.com.
* Sandberg, Sheryl. Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead. New York, New York: Random House, 2013.