As most of
you know, I am deeply involved in gender diversity and I have had many times
the opportunity to speak and act on the subject.
Today, I
would like to promote a book that has been originally published in
French : "Gender balance, when men step up", Editions Eyrolles.
On this
book, I wrote the preface.
Here
after is the summary of the book (copied from Eyrolles site) :
Maybe
you're skeptical about what men have to gain from greater gender balance. Maybe
you're reticent to speak up about a sensitive subject. Perhaps you're wondering
how to get more men to join the gender balance debate. Or maybe you just want
to take part in one of the major managerial transformations facing companies in
the 21st century.
Gender
balance: when men step up. Because men too can benefit!
Today's
leaders have much to gain from greater gender balance, be it in their personal
lives or at work. The leaders interviewed for this book are categorical: gender
balance is a tool to transform organisations and to build competitive
advantage. But it is also a means to address men's - and Gen Y's -
growing aspiration for flexibility and innovative ways of working, This book
clarifies the business case for gender balance, explores what men have to gain,
provides the basic knowledge to engage debate and action plans - and get
other men on board. Twelve leaders explain why they have personally taken a
stand on gender balance and put it high on their list of strategic priorities.
The
book will help men and women understand the pillars of masculine identity, and
why change in organisations is so difficult. It resolutely takes the man's
point of view in the hope of rebalancing a debate too often confined to women,
to political correctness or to conforming reluctantly to equality laws.
As men
and women's aspirations converge, we hope this book will bring new
perspectives, a new language - and a more balanced view of gender balance!
Authors: Marie-Christine Mahéas, Jerome
Ballarin, Armelle Carminati, Laurent Depond, Sandrine Devillard, Francois
Fatoux, Antoine de Gabrielli, Alexandre Jost, Cécile Kossoff, Margaret Milan,
Kunal Modi, Jean-Michel Monnot, Marie-Claude Peyrache, Véronique Préaux Cobti,
Valérie Rocoplan, Patrick Scharnitzky, Catherine Vidal. Avivah Wittenberg-Cox.
CEO
interviews: Henri
de Castries, Carlos Ghosn, Gerald Karsenti, Michel Landel, Noël Le Graet,
Christophe de Margerie, Gianmarco Monsellato, Frédéric Oudéa, Guillaume Pepy,
Francois Pérol, Franck Riboud, Stéphane Richard.
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