Gender Dynamics and Women in the City

This week I received a super magazine which is one for Women in the City (Gwen Rhys fame) http://www.citywomen.co.uk/.  On to Page 30 and 31 I read with interest Will Women Survive the City jungle? from Karina Robinson.  I was shocked and saddened to read many comments:

1. “Men are wielding the axe more than women…so they would make a female colleague redundant rather than a “mate”"

2. “A female banker said the average male response is to kill and survive” and the worst

3. “All women I spoke to whether still in the city or having left, expressed disappointment at how quickly the message on gender diversity has broken down!”

Not in my book is Gender Diversity about Women.  Of course it is accepted that the minute you mention gender it is all to do with women, WRONG.  It is to do with all of us men and women.  Pauline Crawford of Gender Dynamics says it all http://www.genderdynamics.co.uk/.

“…shifts the dynamic of the workplace from one that is inherently masculine to one where there is a more balanced collaboration of the masculine and the feminine” .

I work with her company and know that to make business relationships work we all need to understand each other male or female.  I work in IT and it is predominantly a male environment.  I love working with people, men and women, whatever race, colour etc.  I treat people as I would like to be treated with respect, consideration, understanding and acknowledging their skills and unique abilities.

Gender has everything to do with Men and Women not only women, so if gender diversity has broken down in the city it has broken down for all of us, not just women.   Let’s help each other out in these difficult times.