Good Girls Eat Dinner
Welcome to Good Girls Eat Dinner, the most interesting dinner party you'll ever go to, now in takeaway form.
Since 2015 we’ve been on a mission to provide more visible, female role models across the creative industries and beyond. At our popular real-life events we serve up four gloriously inspiring female speakers between the courses of a delicious meal. It always leaves everyone hungry for more, so here on the podcast we’ll dedicate a whole episode to each incredible guest. We won't be eating dinner but you certainly can!
Join me, Jo Wallace (Executive Creative Director by day, founder of Good Girls Eat Dinner by night) as I ask female pioneers to share their experiences, stories and advice. To leave you full of inspiration.
Good Girls Eat Dinner
S2 E8: Lori Meakin - Why aren't more men involved in gender equality, when it's proven to benefit us all?
Jo welcomes the exceptional Lori Meakin to the Good Girls Eat Dinner podcast.
Lori is a multi-award-winning strategist and entrepreneur with decades of experience working with some of the world's biggest and most successful brands. Lori has long been driven to help build a more gender-equal world. Now, she uses the expertise in changing attitudes and behaviour that she's developed over decades in branding, advertising and the media to address the issue: why aren't more men getting involved in gender equality, which is proven to benefit all of us?
Topics covered:
- Growing up in social housing in Dagenham near the Ford factory where a group of women took action that led to the Equal Pay Act.
- Trigger warning; suffering a traumatic sexual assault.
- How such a negative experience led to positive work.
- From a language & literature teacher to a strategist in advertising.
- The power of storytelling: helping us understand ourselves and one another.
- No More Menemies – the inspiration behind this insightful book.
- Approaching the task of engaging more men in gender equality strategically.
- Motivating men to help create a better outcome for everyone.
- The false narrative telling white straight men the odds are now stacked against them.
- How the likes of Trump and Tate capitalize on fear to give all of the wrong answers to young men.
- When women take up just 30% of a space, content or conversation they’re seen as ‘dominating’.
- When women take up just 15% of a space, content or conversation they’re seen as ‘equal’.
- Loss aversion: the human programming that makes Gender Equality feel like men are having things ‘taken away’ when women are literally losing rights.
- 57% of men in Britain think equality has gone too far – and surprisingly (perhaps) the majority are Gen Z.
- We’ve been socialized to assume that sons are more intelligent than daughters (by 10 IQ points).
- What men are missing out on due to a lack of equality.
- Misogyny as the gateway to many other forms of hate (homophobia, racism, transphobia etc).
- ‘The Others & Me’ a consultancy that spotlights the opportunities for organisations to create positive change and a competitive advantage.
- Why ‘guys’ is not the best way to address a team.
- Positively refusing to be beaten down by the problems in the world.
- Embracing curiosity and our similarities to bridge the perceived gender divide.
- Lori’s Doggy Bag of Advice
Lori's book: https://www.theothersandme.com/nomoremenemies
The Other's & Me: https://www.theothersandme.com/
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