The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) is taking steps towards forming an active network of Fellows with an interest in gender issues and diversity to begin to address some of the issues facing women in the 21st Century.
Current RSA Fellow Louise Burfitt-Dons contacted the RSA with an idea for an RSA Women’s Speakers Network and has started to put the initiative in place.
The RSA currently has a public events programme on pressing social issues and hopes that the new RSA Women’s Speaker Network can compliment this.
Louise says: ‘The communication of ideas and opinions through public speaking is one of the most influential ways of inspiring and progressing social change. It seems an ideal time for developing a network of this sort because the topics that were once considered “women’s domain” like bonding, networking, pacifying, empathising are emerging more and more in corporate leadership lectures.’
She adds: ‘The female workforce is now over fifty per cent in some countries and women mostly run the households affected by the million or so job cuts coming up shortly so their awareness of the perils of climate change are essential. With the economic recovery dependent on public spending and women responsible in some categories up to 80 per cent of that decision making, women’s influence is no longer just a gender topic, but a planet issue. So there’s a lot to talk about and initiate here.’
>> If you are interested in helping expand the RSA’s initial ideas contact Louise Burfitt-Dons by email: l.burfitt-dons@btconnect.com.
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