I Dont Know Boss but I Wont Do It Again Armstrong
Tim Armstrong Doesn't Say The Wrong Matter About Women In The Workplace
Editor's note: Fara Warner is editorial director of Aol Tech and This Built America.
In the past few weeks and months, conversations nearly women in our industry have run the gamut from companies such every bit Apple tree and Facebook willing to pay to freeze women's eggs so they can put off having children and Satya Nadella's karmic misstep to the data-rich, simply solution-poor disclosure of merely how few women are at the top of tech.
But Tim Armstrong showed other tech CEOs how to speak with respect and adoration about women in the workplace during his comments onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt London. The comments came afterwards Josh asked him about his own missteps when he talked almost women and how "distressed babies" had been at the heart of a reason to make changes in Aol's employee benefits. Not a proud moment for any CEO.
This time around, he spoke about women and diversity in a mode that didn't condescend (no karmic wheels of life to come back and boot you lot as they did Satya) or put u.s.a. on a gendered pedestal with talk of our eggs and biological science. Nor did he ask u.s. to lean in, lean back or lean anywhere to solve these problems on our own.
Instead, what I heard as a woman working at Aol is that I have an open up invitation to excel and take risks, and that my success will be measured by my accomplishments, not my gender. Moreover, my gender isn't going to hold me dorsum from being rewarded for excelling and — to put a sharp pay-parity indicate on this — if my run a risk-taking pays off, I'll become rewarded for information technology.
That's a big contribution to this never-catastrophe conversation about women and work and, importantly, pay parity. As my boss put it and then simply, everyone wants to go paid for the talents and skills we bring to a workplace, which is at the center of pay parity whether you're me or y'all're a blackness man, transgendered or somebody over 60 — basically anyone who doesn't fit the norm in tech of the white 30-twelvemonth-one-time male person.
We should succeed or neglect on the merits of our piece of work, the sharpness of our minds and our power to add together value to the world, not the shapes of our bodies or the color of our pare or who nosotros know.
(Full disclosure. As I mentioned above, I work at Aol albeit farther downwards the org chart than the women Tim mentioned in the last few minutes of his xx-minute conversation. I am the editorial director for Aol Tech, which means that the editorial teams for TechCrunch and Engadget, Joystiq and TUAW written report to me. I know correct! Large surprise, the co-editors have a boss. One thing I'chiliad hugely proud of is that women and all kinds of other people who aren't white and male person are well-represented throughout Aol Tech, and nosotros're better for that diversity and viewpoint.)
This conversation, equally Alexia noted when we discussed this via text and email, brings us to a reasoned indicate of inflection in the conversation. And I hope that the inflection is strong plenty to button us toward smart, insightful conversations and solutions instead of what nosotros've heard recently.
I know it's never that simple. Bigotry happens no matter what a leader says or does. Only Armstrong planted a flag and said why women are important to Aol and overall to the workplace. Whatever happens after this, I believe an open conversation can flow about career advocacy, pay parity or discrimination at Aol and perhaps beyond.
The other big contribution Armstrong brought to this conversation was this: Work should exist a place where you have the opportunity to larn and grow. Okay I'm pretty sure Aol isn't that identify completely — or that whatever corporation will ever be able to accomplish that. But I'd be happy to help information technology go closer to that place because I don't want to work somewhere where the conversation is e'er about my gender when it comes to getting what I need or want from piece of work — or not getting what I want and need as the instance may be.
Beyond discrimination and fighting corporate cultures that don't support diversity, I think this very lack of learning and growing may be at the centre of why we leave the corporate world and start our own things.
Work becomes too much near getting ahead or keeping our head down, getting the adjacent raise (not that we don't want or deserve that) and climbing our way upwards the ladder. Instead, shouldn't work — for everyone — exist a place where you're learning and growing? And yes getting paid fairly. Information technology's what I once loved about journalism–and most days however do. No affair what story I was working on, no matter how tough my editor, I was learning something new every day.
So now that this discussion is on the table — information technology's upward to all of the states — and me personally now that we've opened up this chat at Aol — to figure out how I make work a place that's less about what gender I am and more about what I can accomplish.
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2014/10/22/tim-armstrong-doesnt-say-the-wrong-thing-about-women-in-the-workplace/
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