Have you been bombarded with mum talk during a Zoom chat, swamped with pregnancy announcements in emails, trapped in a maternity leave office party, expected to work late, denied flexi-time, fallen to the bottom of the list for holidays or just felt embarrassed to approach your line manager or personnel department because you are childless? Perhaps you’ve spoken out and instigated changes or helped to create inclusive policies? Have you run to the loo for sanity and to shed a few tears or decided enough is enough and spoken out for change?
Let’s talk about the problems we face and what we can do to create positive changes in the workplace.
Work environments have become so "woke" to the working parent that it is increasingly becoming a divisive issue to anyone without children, especially those who are childless not by choice. Join Penny Rabarts and Liz Campbell as they discuss ways to raise awareness of how oblivious the pronatalist workplace agenda is in regards to the childless community, what can we do about it and how we respond when things are far from woke.
You can access the slides here
Finding a path and making meaningful connections. A webinar for professional childless people and inclusive business groups.
A discussion with Berenice Smith, Karin Enfield De Vries and Sarah Lawrence.
Join Christine Erickson, Julia Fominova, Vita Stige-Škuskovnika and Dr Fiona McRonald who are all working in varying and diverse ways to advocate for our community as they discuss how as a diverse community, we can take action toward creating real change in the workplace.
See the New Legacy Human Resources Tool here
World Childless Week 2020
As a childless person in any workplace, you may be feeling left out and excluded from the “Diversity & Inclusion” policies your employer has. Whilst we see an increase in the awareness and embracing of other “diversity groups”, when it comes to the childless staff member, there is still so much to learn.
You can find the details of organisations specifically created to support the childless in the workplace here
People who experience childlessness often face distressing comments, triggers, disenfranchised grief, and even discrimination, through pro-natal workplace cultures.