Office Revolt

Objective:
To empower young professionals to counter discrimination and unconscious bias of women and feminine persons in their professional environment.

Target group (participants):
25-30 young professionals and other youth (aged 18-30) from 5/6 countries and mixed gender identities who:
* want to contribute to a gender-equal society.
* feel that there’s too much inequality in the workplace environment they’re part of.
* are committed to spend time and energy to change this, but don’t feel sufficiently capable, equipped and/or confident to do so.

Main activities:
1. A 7-day training course in the NL during which participants develop and train – in a safe space – their competences to (better) advocate for a stronger position of women & feminine persons in the workplace. This includes e.g. reflecting on personal past experiences, building confidence in speaking up for the cause and dealing with backlash, influential communication and negotiation tactics, and learning to build alliance and ally programmes step by step.

2. A set of talks before the training course, through which participants make themselves familiar with the status of gender equality in their national and personal context, by engaging with policy makers, senior managers at frontrunner employers, and with decision-makers and colleagues within their own organisation.

3. After the training course will participants finetune and implement their plan for improving gender equality in the organisation they’re part of, whilst checking in frequently with their peers and with frontrunner organisations to support them.

Funding:
We'll apply for the Erasmus+ Key Action 1 Youth Participation subsidy line for the base fudnding of this project. Additionally we ask participation fees of between 200 and 400 EUR per person.