For real change to happen, we have to fix the issues at the table where decisions are being made.
By Thomas Lee, Workflow contributor
Realizing one’s true potential may require rejecting the status quo and constructing a new reality, several iconic women recently told ServiceNow’s Now at Work 2021 virtual conferences.
They included Abby Wambach, a former U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team star and World Cup champion, and author and entrepreneur Arianna Huffington, among others. Through anecdotal storytelling, each speaker urged the audience to challenge norms and conventions that impede rather than further equality and the pursuit of one’s own ambitions.
This is especially true, Wambach said, for people in marginalized communities, including women playing at the highest echelons of global sports.
For example, Wambach said, she spent years pushing for women soccer players to be treated as equals to their male counterparts, with little success. “It’s like screaming into the abyss,” she said.
So she took matters into her own hands. In 2020, Wambach, along with other high-profile women, including tennis star Serena Williams and actress Natalie Portman, launched Angel City FC, a Los Angeles–based expansion team in the National Women’s Soccer League.
“For real change to happen, we have to fix the issues at the table where decisions are being made,” Wambach said.
Forcefully addressing gender inequality, she said, requires “getting cash into the hands of women employees, because power and money go hand in hand.”
For real change to happen, we have to fix the issues at the table where decisions are being made.
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