International Women's Day (IWD) is one of the most important days of the year to:
A. Celebrate women's achievements
B. Raise awareness about women's equality
C. Lobby for accelerated gender parity
D. Fundraise for female-focused charities
On the day we participated in some activities which were:
1. Our Senior HR Advisor attended a female role model event at a local school, talking to female students in year 8 about resilience. The aim of the session is to inspire the students to find out about different careers, to think about what they could achieve, the importance of resilience and to look for opportunities wherever they go.
2. Arranged and attended a 1 hour lunch and learn session on “Unconscious Bias” which gave all the colleagues who attended a real insight into the subject. Many people believe that bias is something that they don’t have, but the speaker gave great examples of unconscious bias and who it comes into play every day in both or professional and personal lives. This bias mostly stems from our upbringing and the way we perceive life in general.
3. Many of the women of Emico submitted some interesting facts about themselves to HR and created an e-book to celebrate everyone who contributed.
Thank you to all who participated in the day
