Champions

Pledges:

• Develop guidelines for hosts and moderators to encourage balanced participation and use of honorifics during panels and Q&A sessions.
• Actively promote inclusion of women experts when approached for quotes or interviews.
• Deliberately create/use multiple types of spaces for informal relationship building (i.e. not just bars), and ensure those spaces are open to all genders.
• Provide transparency to relevant stakeholders (board, staff, grantees, readers, etc.) about how the organization is doing in achieving its goals in inclusivity.
• Provide advance notice of meetings to enhance predictability and planning.
• Actively support telework and flextime options for staff.
• Avoid calling critical meetings during evenings, weekends, early mornings, and public holidays, which are difficult times for those who provide care for others to attend.