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Conference Presentation, Panel

Gender at Work: Why We’re Still Struggling to Get It Right

  • The Milken Institute plans to gather participant takeaways and feedback to inform future programming and return these responses to participants as a feedback loop.
  • The Institute expects participants to identify specific workplace perceptions creating challenges for women to facilitate the creative development of solutions through discussion.
  • A prediction is made for a future day when dedicated women's sessions will no longer be necessary, contingent on changing cultural norms and language that shift the default expectation of the attendee from male to gender-neutral.
  • Equality is identified as the primary mechanism for societal change, achieved by teaching sons that equality is the norm.