Let’s Help Men-Allies By Educating Them
Contemporary Women’s Road to Flourish Workplace Diversity
The other day, I was talking on the phone to my two Egyptian friends about weather, elections & lack of equality in job offers between men and women.
As we were talking about what mattered and what didn’t, my female friend remembered how she felt on her last trip to Europe, when she got harassed in the street as she was walking back towards her hotel. She added that this might be the harassment number 1,432 in a row.
Our male friend’s immediate response was:
“Come on! don’t exaggerate to get my empathy, ladies!”
My friend replied to him: “ This is not an exaggeration. You don’t know that this happens every day, and every time I step outside my house?”
Our innocent, oblivious friend response that shocked me was:
“ I honestly didn’t know!”
I started thinking more in-depth about it. Remembering every shred of a conversation I had with my supportive male friends about an unequal job offer, a horrendously-outrageous remark on my body I got from a colleague, and the fact that I didn’t walk freely in Egypt streets in my last visit. All those conversations didn’t end with denial from my friends…
