5 Fridays starting May 2nd
11:00am-1:30pm ET/8:00-10:30am PT
Online
We invite you to become a Gender Equity Advocate, working together toward equal, unbiased hiring & employment processes, language & behaviors in Jewish workplaces, building organizational capacity for gender equity.
Learn how to spot, notice and challenge gender bias and to identify the diverse talent and leadership that will lead our Jewish community forward, in a collegial learning cohort of peers. Our Gender Equity Advocates are individual professionals fundamental to the success of their Jewish organizations and communities, embedded in their Jewish community, as this work is done within their current roles. Gender Equity Advocates ideally represent a diverse and inclusive assembly of Jewish communal professionals and volunteer lay leaders, and are prepared to serve as voices for all kinds of change toward gender-equitable and less biased processes, language and behaviors across our Jewish organizations. Each of our cohort members, by virtue of their advocacy, role, interest and passion is thus positioned to build individual, organizational and communal capacity. All those who are curious, passionate and eager to learn, within their current professional roles, are invited to join us as we dive deeply into the work of making our Jewish community a more gender-equitable space. This is open to all professionals, and does not require participants to hold a supervisory, HR or DEI portfolio to participate.
Our Advocates: Each of our cohort members, by virtue of their advocacy, role, interest and passion is thus positioned to build individual, organizational and communal capacity. All those who are curious, passionate and eager to learn, within their current volunteer roles, are invited to join us as we dive deeply into the work of making our Jewish community a more equitable space. Learn how to spot, notice and challenge gender bias and to identify the diverse talent and leadership that will lead our Jewish community forward, in a collegial learning cohort of peers
Our Learning: As a Gender Equity Advocate, you’ll join the communal effort to address gender bias in the Jewish workplace, with a specific focus on how employees are hired, retained, employed and advanced by and in our Jewish organizations. We begin with our biases, contemplating where our personal stories intersect with our work. We then step into these biases, examining how they function in our lives and work, how they influence our communication and decision-making, and where these biases emerge in intersection with hiring and employment. We then consider the multi-phased work of the hiring committee and our professional partners, and the various steps of the hiring process, as we imagine how to constitute these committees and professional roles to effectively combat bias and strive for equity. As we reimagine this process, we consider our first strategies toward understanding our relationships, the challenge of power, and the questions that drive our work and our values as we plan for a future that is less biased and more just and equitable for women and people of all genders.
As we engage in close textual reading as a tool to consider how language influences behavior, we continue to consider our biases, as we notice and observe social and cultural norms and shift our behavior. We use job descriptions to evaluate language and evaluate ourselves, as our primary text to lift up opportunities to create gender-equitable internal and external organizational processes.
We design for action, as we uncover helpful, practical strategies for identifying challenges in hiring and employment processes, with templates for advocacy located in thoughtful, organizational strategy and a desire to create supportive, equitable workplace cultures. Our work is deeply relational, and we focus on considering and mapping the roles we play in our organizations, and those with whom we are in relationship. In order to more deeply understand power and connection, and clarify our images of leadership, we tap into our own power to advocate and make change.
We believe that hiring and employment processes that are more gender-equitable enable women rise to positions of leadership, and will also enable our Jewish organizations to hire the best candidates at the same time–and that a rising tide will lift all ships, supporting all those who work in the Jewish not-for-profit sector to be enriched and satisfied by their work, regardless of gender. We believe that designing for equity in hiring and employment processes requires us to be intersectional in our thinking and our practice, and we invite you to join us in this space. Our work is to tap into the greatest potential our community has to offer, and to enable us to release our biases and preconceived notions that hold us back from recognizing the powerful human resources in our midst. If you are ready to begin advocating for yourself and your colleagues, and this is a change that you feel committed to amplifying, we invite you to join us.
Our Community Cohort will meet on Fridays beginning in May.
Sessions are 2.5 hours long and meet via Zoom.
Friday, May 2 11:00am-1:30pm ET/8:00-10:30am PT
Friday, May 9 11:00am-1:30pm ET/8:00-10:30am PT
Friday, May 16 11:00am-1:30pm ET/8:00-10:30am PT
Friday, May 30 11:00am-1:30pm ET/8:00-10:30am PT
Friday, June 6 11:00am-1:30pm ET/8:00-10:30am PT
PLEASE NOTE THAT AS OF MONDAY, APRIL 28, ALL REGISTRANTS ARE SUPPORTED BY A GENEROUS GIFT FROM A FUNDER. We invite you to enroll at whatever level you are able, acknowledging that we have room for you to join us free of charge if you wish.
