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AFRGA1 A014 Congratulations to the winners of the 100 Women of Influence Awards. Visit rubyconnection.com.au to find out more. AFR Thursday 29 September 2016 The Australian Financial Review | www.afr.com 14 News AFR Thursday 29 September 2016 www.afr.com | The Australian Financial Review 15 News The game changers Leadership From the mines to the swimming pool, from the stage to the board room, Australia’s next generation of influencers are changing the world, writes Claire Stewart. Clockwise from top left: Lisa Wilkinson, Monica Meldrum with husband James and daughter Chloe, Eileen Kramer, Ellie Cole, Beth Shaw and Melissa Abu-Gazaleh. SOURCE: WESTPAC, FINANCIAL REVIEW Category & name Role Organisation Category & name Role Organisation Innovation (sponsored by AGSM @ UNSW Business School) Arts, culture, sport Local and regional Social enterprise and not-for-profit Public policy Young leader (sponsored by Dentsu Aegis Network) Fiona Cameron Ellie Cole Catherine DeVrye Moya Dodd Jane Flemming Eileen Kramer Lisa Wilkinson Malinda Wink Global (sponsored by United Airlines) Julie Bernhardt Patricia Davidson Megan Davis Mina Guli Jocelynne Scutt Natasha Stott Despoja Vanessa Zimmerman Division head - stroke Dean and Professor Professor of law CEO & founder, athlete Barrister & human rights lawyer Aust ambassador for women and girls Group human rights advisor Florey Institute of Neuroscience Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, USA UNSW Australia Thirst Inner Temple, London UK Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Rio Tinto Diversity (sponsored by Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand) Jenine Beekhuyzen Julie Cogin Pippa Downes Maria Katsonis Lynn Kraus Kristy Masella Kerryn Phelps Christine Reghenzani Elizabeth Shaw Pallavi Sinha Pearl Tan Founder Director and deputy dean Cornerstone member Director, family violence and service delivery reform Oceania middle market leader and Sydney office managing partner CEO Medical founder & director Commander President Principal, lecturer Co-chair Tech Girls Movement Australian Graduate School of Mgmt at UNSW Business School The Pinnacle Foundation Department of Premier and Cabinet (Vic) EY Aboriginal Employment Strategy Sydney Integrative Medicine Royal Australian Navy Reserve UN Women Australia Lawyers with Solutions, College of Law Equity Diversity Committee Business enterprise Cherie Barber Melissa Browne Sue Carr Kay Ganley Alison Green Connie Mckeage Monica Meldrum Gabby Montagnese Cyndi O'Meara Gina Rinehart Cyan Ta'eed Diane Westaway CEO CEO Principal director CEO CEO & co-founder Group CEO CEO & co-founder Director Founder Executive chair Executive director and co-founder CEO & founder Renovating for Profit A&TA, The Money Barre & Thinkers.inq Carr Design Group CHARLTON BROWN Pantera Press OneVue Whole Kids New Age Caravans Changing Habits Hancock Group of Companies Envato Wild Women On Top COO Paralympian & Motivational Speaker CEO Partner Director Ambassador Today Show co-host/editor-at-large Executive director Board/management (sponsored by Trivett Bespoke) Christine Corbett Joanne Farrell Katja Forbes Susan Gordon Cindy Hook Ming Long Leone Lorrimer Sarah Morton-Ramwell Philippa Pattison Clare Payne Janice Reid Sadhana Smiles Fiona Trafford-Walker Deanne Weir Chief customer officer Group Exec HSE and MD Australia Managing director Board president CEO Member Finance & Audit Committee CEO Partner, Global Head of Pro Bono and Corporate Responsibility Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) Director Chair CEO Director of consulting MD, content aggregation and wholesale Australia Post Rio Tinto syfte WA PCYC Inc. Deloitte Australia University of Sydney dwp suters Ashurst University of Sydney The Banking and Finance Oath Pacific Friends of the Global Fund Harcourts Victoria Frontier Advisors Foxtel Screen Australia Australian Paralympic Committee CDV Management Gilbert + Tobin Live Life Get Active Arts Health Institute Nine Network/ Huffington Post Australia Good Pitch Australia Eileen Baldry Catherine Ball Emily Banks Bronwyn Evans Misty Jenkins Rebecca Johnson Jennifer MacDiarmid Laura McKenzie Carolyn Mee Charlotte Petris Sue Samuelsson Natalka Suchowerska Professor of criminology and academic chair CEO & founder Head, epidemiology for policy and practice CEO Laboratory head Director, Aust Museum Research Institute Joint CEO & director CEO & director Founder & director CEO & founder Director Leader, Medical Physics Research Div UNSW Remote Research Ranges The Australian National Universtity Standards Australia Walter and Eliza Hall Institute Australian Museum EnGeneIC Scale Investors cmee4 Productions Timelio i-Vet (Australia) Chris O'Brien Lifehouse Leith Boully Cheryl Edwardes Tracey Hayes Sonia Loudon Mave Richardson Pieta Thornton Susan West Chairman Chairman CEO Co-founder, leading teacher Retired President Associate professor SunWater Vimy Resources NT Cattlemen's Association Boundless Foundation, Mill Park Secondary College Volunteer community worker Victims and Witnesses of Crime Court Support Australian National University Karen Chester Mary Crooks Nadine Ezard Jane Hall Lucy Haslam Dorothy Hoddinott Jenny McGregor Clover Moore Jerril Rechter Catherine Scarth Gillian Triggs Deputy chair Executive director Clinical director, Alcohol and Drug Service Director of Strategy Executive director & co-founder Principal Group CEO Lord Mayor CEO CEO President Productivity Commission Victorian Women's Trust St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation, UTS United in Compassion Holroyd High School, Greystanes Asialink City of Sydney VicHealth AMES Australia Australian Human Rights Commission Fiona Armstrong Libby Davies Janelle Goulding Kelly McJannett Kristy McKellar Janine Middleton Claire Robbs Kate Swaffer Lyn Swinburne Lucy Thomas Founder & executive director CEO CEO CEO Family violence and social change consultant, advocate and survivor Co-chair CEO Chair, CEO & co-founder Founder CEO and co-founder Climate and Health Alliance White Ribbon Australia City West Housing Food Ladder KM Consulting Services Australian Marriage Equality Life Without Barriers Dementia Alliance International Breast Cancer Network Australia PROJECT ROCKIT Melissa Abu-Gazaleh Marina Brizar Caitlin Figueiredo Kate Fitzsimons Sylvia Freedman Melanie Hill Adriana Mercado Lizzie Moroney CEO & founder Head of Corporate and Private Client, Director of AMB Foundation Ambassador and UN Task-Force member Director Co-founder Nurse and midwife Team leader, claims assistance provider CEO & founder Top Blokes Foundation Playfair Visa & Migration Services Global Resolutions and United Nations Nicole Fitzsimons Foundation EndoActive Australia & NZ St Vincent's Private Hospital, Melbourne Playfair Visa & Migration Services The Mto Wam Bu Project These awards uncover those extraordinary women whose tireless commitment to creating change would have otherwise remained unrecognised. Westpac’s Ainslie van Onselen A chance trip to help the Australian govern- ment deliver food aid to impoverished com- munities in Indonesia left an indelible mark on Monica Meldrum. So much so, she returned home and started not a charity, but a business. The company, Whole Kids, manufactures and supplies organic, hypo-allergenic, additive-free snacks for children, and is Ms Meldrum’s attempt to rectify some of the wrongs she sees perpetrated by Big Food, and generate revenue to fund health and education programs for children nationally. In recognition of her work, Meldrum has been named in this year’s The Australian Financial Review/Westpac 100 Women of Influence Awards, announced on Thursday. Now in it’s fifth year, the awards have garnered interest from an increasingly broad cross-sector of entrants, some high profile, such as television personality Lisa Wilkinson, mining magnate Gina Rinehart and three-time Paralympic swimmer Ellie Cole, and others less well known but equally influential, such as Dementia Alliance Inter- national founder, Kate Swaffer. Westpac director of women’s markets, diversity and inclusion, and judging co- chair, Ainslie van Onselen, said finding the hidden talent as well as the more visible leaders is what differentiates the awards. ‘‘Women deserve to be recognised as intelligent, capable and equal and these awards not only highlight the incredible breadth of talented Australian women, they uncover those extraordinary women whose tireless commitment to creating change would have otherwise remained unrecog- nised.’’ It’s a sentiment UN Women Australia president and one of this year’s 100 Women of Influence from Western Australia, Beth Shaw, echoes. She said the most heartening change now is the willingness of more people to recog- nise that influence comes in different forms, and doesn’t necessarily rely on formal posi- tions of authority to be wielded. ‘‘It’s about recognising that people have different career paths and experiences, and that experiences we have discounted for not embodying what is traditionally seen as leadership, is actually just a different way of bringing people along, and no less valid,’’ Ms Shaw said. Dancer and choreographer Eileen Kramer embodies that idea. At 102 years of age, she is still performing, and as ambas- sador for the Arts Health Institute uses her own crowd-funding projects to help fund and train artists to work in aged care. Awards judge Paul Robertson said he was overwhelmed by the energy of the women. ‘‘Often people tend to concentrate on the negative and all the problems we are facing, yet here is a bunch of women who are extremely optimistic and throwing themselves into a massive amount of work to really make a difference,’’ he said. ‘‘It’s very encouraging and very refreshing. We all need a good dose of optimism in the country and here are the women who are going to do it.’’ Mr Robertson, who is chair of Social Ven- tures and St Vincent’s Health Australia, said it has become apparent that influence is no longer constrained by the boundaries of a particular sector but is increasingly being exercised across a variety of platforms, be it economic, political or social. ‘‘It’s definitely the changing face of leader- ship and will have a huge impact on Austra- lia,’’ he said. As with Ms Meldrum, Alison Green, who founded Pantera Press when she was 22, exemplifies the trend towards cross- pollination between business and social good. Ms Green said rather than start a charity to help lift literacy rates, she realised the more effective way was to start a company that could fund the changes she wanted to make in society. ‘‘The literacy piece had always come into it because as the core part of the business I thought it was really important to be invest- ing in that next generation of Australians, writers and readers. ‘‘So the business was about finding new authors, but then at the time we had started our Good Books Doing Good Things pro- gram, investing a percentage of the revenue into fixing the literacy gap.’’ Ms Green said it’s a common theme among the younger generation to start busi- nesses that have an ingrained social pur- pose from the outset. It’s what Ms Meldrum calls ‘‘profits with purpose’’ an idea awarded by global accreditation as a B-Corporation, which Whole Kids has. For Melissa Abu-Gazaleh, the next step in creating social change is re-engaging men, and young men in particular. Ms Abu- Gazaleh, whose organisation Top Blokes Foundation works with about 1400 young men each year, said people used to laugh at the idea of a girl helping men. ‘‘’You’re a girl, you should be doing things with girls’, they said. ‘‘I thought yes that’s true but there’s something else to it too. ‘‘It’s root cause analysis. What is the root cause of discrimination? It’s the embedded views of those in power, which is typically in most cases still men in some countries.’’ If you want to change men’s behaviour, Ms Abu-Gazaleh said, there needs to be an ongoing conversation, particularly to ensure young men can engage with the broader social culture, and to change the embedded narrative. ‘‘It can’t be a one-off conversation. If you want to change culture, it’s not about being the loudest voice, it’s about being the most consistent voice.’’ AFR Thursday 29 September 2016 www.afr.com | The Australian Financial Review 15 News SOURCE: WESTPAC, FINANCIAL REVIEW Category & name Role Organisation Category & name Role Organisation Innovation (sponsored by AGSM @ UNSW Business School) Arts, culture, sport Local and regional Social enterprise and not-for-profit Public policy Young leader (sponsored by Dentsu Aegis Network) Fiona Cameron Ellie Cole Catherine DeVrye Moya Dodd Jane Flemming Eileen Kramer Lisa Wilkinson Malinda Wink Global (sponsored by United Airlines) Julie Bernhardt Patricia Davidson Megan Davis Mina Guli Jocelynne Scutt Natasha Stott Despoja Vanessa Zimmerman Division head - stroke Dean and Professor Professor of law CEO & founder, athlete Barrister & human rights lawyer Aust ambassador for women and girls Group human rights advisor Florey Institute of Neuroscience Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, USA UNSW Australia Thirst Inner Temple, London UK Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Rio Tinto Diversity (sponsored by Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand) Jenine Beekhuyzen Julie Cogin Pippa Downes Maria Katsonis Lynn Kraus Kristy Masella Kerryn Phelps Christine Reghenzani Elizabeth Shaw Pallavi Sinha Pearl Tan Founder Director and deputy dean Cornerstone member Director, family violence and service delivery reform Oceania middle market leader and Sydney office managing partner CEO Medical founder & director Commander President Principal, lecturer Co-chair Tech Girls Movement Australian Graduate School of Mgmt at UNSW Business School The Pinnacle Foundation Department of Premier and Cabinet (Vic) EY Aboriginal Employment Strategy Sydney Integrative Medicine Royal Australian Navy Reserve UN Women Australia Lawyers with Solutions, College of Law Equity Diversity Committee Business enterprise Cherie Barber Melissa Browne Sue Carr Kay Ganley Alison Green Connie Mckeage Monica Meldrum Gabby Montagnese Cyndi O'Meara Gina Rinehart Cyan Ta'eed Diane Westaway CEO CEO Principal director CEO CEO & co-founder Group CEO CEO & co-founder Director Founder Executive chair Executive director and co-founder CEO & founder Renovating for Profit A&TA, The Money Barre & Thinkers.inq Carr Design Group CHARLTON BROWN Pantera Press OneVue Whole Kids New Age Caravans Changing Habits Hancock Group of Companies Envato Wild Women On Top COO Paralympian & Motivational Speaker CEO Partner Director Ambassador Today Show co-host/editor-at-large Executive director Board/management (sponsored by Trivett Bespoke) Christine Corbett Joanne Farrell Katja Forbes Susan Gordon Cindy Hook Ming Long Leone Lorrimer Sarah Morton-Ramwell Philippa Pattison Clare Payne Janice Reid Sadhana Smiles Fiona Trafford-Walker Deanne Weir Chief customer officer Group Exec HSE and MD Australia Managing director Board president CEO Member Finance & Audit Committee CEO Partner, Global Head of Pro Bono and Corporate Responsibility Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) Director Chair CEO Director of consulting MD, content aggregation and wholesale Australia Post Rio Tinto syfte WA PCYC Inc. Deloitte Australia University of Sydney dwp suters Ashurst University of Sydney The Banking and Finance Oath Pacific Friends of the Global Fund Harcourts Victoria Frontier Advisors Foxtel Screen Australia Australian Paralympic Committee CDV Management Gilbert + Tobin Live Life Get Active Arts Health Institute Nine Network/ Huffington Post Australia Good Pitch Australia Eileen Baldry Catherine Ball Emily Banks Bronwyn Evans Misty Jenkins Rebecca Johnson Jennifer MacDiarmid Laura McKenzie Carolyn Mee Charlotte Petris Sue Samuelsson Natalka Suchowerska Professor of criminology and academic chair CEO & founder Head, epidemiology for policy and practice CEO Laboratory head Director, Aust Museum Research Institute Joint CEO & director CEO & director Founder & director CEO & founder Director Leader, Medical Physics Research Div UNSW Remote Research Ranges The Australian National Universtity Standards Australia Walter and Eliza Hall Institute Australian Museum EnGeneIC Scale Investors cmee4 Productions Timelio i-Vet (Australia) Chris O'Brien Lifehouse Leith Boully Cheryl Edwardes Tracey Hayes Sonia Loudon Mave Richardson Pieta Thornton Susan West Chairman Chairman CEO Co-founder, leading teacher Retired President Associate professor SunWater Vimy Resources NT Cattlemen's Association Boundless Foundation, Mill Park Secondary College Volunteer community worker Victims and Witnesses of Crime Court Support Australian National University Karen Chester Mary Crooks Nadine Ezard Jane Hall Lucy Haslam Dorothy Hoddinott Jenny McGregor Clover Moore Jerril Rechter Catherine Scarth Gillian Triggs Deputy chair Executive director Clinical director, Alcohol and Drug Service Director of Strategy Executive director & co-founder Principal Group CEO Lord Mayor CEO CEO President Productivity Commission Victorian Women's Trust St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation, UTS United in Compassion Holroyd High School, Greystanes Asialink City of Sydney VicHealth AMES Australia Australian Human Rights Commission Fiona Armstrong Libby Davies Janelle Goulding Kelly McJannett Kristy McKellar Janine Middleton Claire Robbs Kate Swaffer Lyn Swinburne Lucy Thomas Founder & executive director CEO CEO CEO Family violence and social change consultant, advocate and survivor Co-chair CEO Chair, CEO & co-founder Founder CEO and co-founder Climate and Health Alliance White Ribbon Australia City West Housing Food Ladder KM Consulting Services Australian Marriage Equality Life Without Barriers Dementia Alliance International Breast Cancer Network Australia PROJECT ROCKIT Melissa Abu-Gazaleh Marina Brizar Caitlin Figueiredo Kate Fitzsimons Sylvia Freedman Melanie Hill Adriana Mercado Lizzie Moroney CEO & founder Head of Corporate and Private Client, Director of AMB Foundation Ambassador and UN Task-Force member Director Co-founder Nurse and midwife Team leader, claims assistance provider CEO & founder Top Blokes Foundation Playfair Visa & Migration Services Global Resolutions and United Nations Nicole Fitzsimons Foundation EndoActive Australia & NZ St Vincent's Private Hospital, Melbourne Playfair Visa & Migration Services The Mto Wam Bu Project These awards uncover those extraordinary women whose tireless commitment to creating change would have otherwise remained unrecognised. Westpac’s Ainslie van Onselen thought it was really important to be invest- ing in that next generation of Australians, writers and readers. ‘‘So the business was about finding new authors, but then at the time we had started our Good Books Doing Good Things pro- gram, investing a percentage of the revenue into fixing the literacy gap.’’ Ms Green said it’s a common theme among the younger generation to start busi- nesses that have an ingrained social pur- pose from the outset. It’s what Ms Meldrum calls ‘‘profits with purpose’’ an idea awarded by global accreditation as a B-Corporation, which Whole Kids has. For Melissa Abu-Gazaleh, the next step in creating social change is re-engaging men, and young men in particular. Ms Abu- Gazaleh, whose organisation Top Blokes Foundation works with about 1400 young men each year, said people used to laugh at the idea of a girl helping men. ‘‘’You’re a girl, you should be doing things with girls’, they said. ‘‘I thought yes that’s true but there’s something else to it too. ‘‘It’s root cause analysis. What is the root cause of discrimination? It’s the embedded views of those in power, which is typically in most cases still men in some countries.’’ If you want to change men’s behaviour, Ms Abu-Gazaleh said, there needs to be an ongoing conversation, particularly to ensure young men can engage with the broader social culture, and to change the embedded narrative. ‘‘It can’t be a one-off conversation. If you want to change culture, it’s not about being the loudest voice, it’s about being the most consistent voice.’’

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comesin

differentforms,

anddoesn’tnecessarily

relyon

formalposi-

tionsofauthorityto

bew

ielded.‘‘It’s

aboutrecognising

thatpeople

havedifferentcareer

pathsand

experiences,andthatexperiencesw

ehave

discountedfornot

embodying

what

istraditionally

seenas

leadership,isactually

justadifferentw

ayof

bringingpeople

along,andno

lessvalid,’’Ms

Shawsaid.

Dancer

andchoreographer

EileenK

ramer

embodies

thatidea.At102

yearsof

age,sheis

stillperforming,and

asam

bas-sador

forthe

Arts

Health

Instituteuses

herow

ncrow

d-fundingprojects

tohelp

fundand

trainartiststo

work

inaged

care.A

wardsjudge

PaulRobertson

saidhe

was

overwhelm

edby

theenergy

ofthew

omen.

‘‘Often

peopletend

toconcentrate

onthe

negativeand

allthe

problems

we

arefacing,yethere

isa

bunchofw

omen

who

areextrem

elyoptim

isticand

throwing

themselves

intoa

massive

amountofw

ork

toreally

make

adifference,’’he

said.‘‘It’svery

encouragingand

veryrefreshing.W

eall

needa

gooddose

ofoptim

ismin

thecountry

andhere

arethe

wom

enw

hoare

goingto

doit.’’

MrR

obertson,who

ischairofSocialVen-

turesandStV

incent’sHealth

Australia,said

ithasbecom

eapparentthatinfluence

isno

longerconstrained

bythe

boundariesof

aparticular

sectorbut

isincreasingly

beingexercised

acrossa

varietyofplatform

s,beit

economic,politicalorsocial.

‘‘It’sdefinitelythe

changingface

ofleader-

shipand

willhave

ahuge

impacton

Austra-

lia,’’hesaid.

As

with

Ms

Meldrum

,Alison

Green,w

hofounded

PanteraPress

when

shew

as22,

exemplifies

thetrend

towards

cross-pollination

between

businessandsocialgood.

Ms

Green

saidrather

thanstarta

charityto

helplift

literacyrates,

sherealised

them

oreeffective

way

was

tostarta

company

thatcouldfund

thechanges

shew

antedto

make

insociety.

‘‘The

literacypiece

hadalw

ayscom

einto

itbecauseas

thecore

partofthebusiness

I

thoughtitwas

reallyim

portanttobe

invest-ing

inthat

nextgeneration

ofA

ustralians,w

ritersandreaders.

‘‘Sothe

businessw

asabout

findingnew

authors,butthenatthe

time

we

hadstarted

ourG

oodBooks

Doing

Good

Things

pro-gram

,investinga

percentageofthe

revenueinto

fixingthe

literacygap.’’

Ms

Green

saidit’s

acom

mon

theme

among

theyoungergeneration

tostartbusi-

nessesthat

havean

ingrainedsocial

pur-pose

fromthe

outset.It’sw

hatMs

Meldrum

calls‘‘profitswith

purpose’’anidea

awarded

byglobalaccreditation

asa

B-Corporation,w

hichW

holeK

idshas.ForM

elissaA

bu-Gazaleh,the

nextstepin

creatingsocialchange

isre-engaging

men,

andyoung

men

inparticular.

Ms

Abu-

Gazaleh,

whose

organisationT

opBlokes

Foundationw

orksw

ithabout

1400young

men

eachyear,said

peopleused

tolaugh

atthe

ideaofa

girlhelpingm

en.‘‘’You’re

agirl,you

shouldbe

doingthings

with

girls’,theysaid.‘‘I

thoughtyes

that’strue

butthere’ssomething

elseto

ittoo.‘‘It’s

rootcauseanalysis.W

hatisthe

root

causeofdiscrim

ination?It’s

theem

beddedview

softhosein

power,w

hichistypically

inm

ostcasesstillmen

insom

ecountries.’’

Ifyou

want

tochange

men’s

behaviour,M

sA

bu-Gazaleh

said,thereneeds

tobe

anongoing

conversation,particularly

toensure

youngm

encan

engagew

iththe

broadersocial

culture,and

tochange

theem

beddednarrative.

‘‘Itcan’tbea

one-offconversation.Ifyouw

anttochange

culture,it’snotaboutbeing

theloudestvoice,it’s

aboutbeingthe

most

consistentvoice.’’

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thoughtitwas

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invest-ing

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nextgeneration

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ustralians,w

ritersandreaders.

‘‘Sothe

businessw

asabout

findingnew

authors,butthenatthe

time

we

hadstarted

ourG

oodBooks

Doing

Good

Things

pro-gram

,investinga

percentageofthe

revenueinto

fixingthe

literacygap.’’

Ms

Green

saidit’s

acom

mon

theme

among

theyoungergeneration

tostartbusi-

nessesthat

havean

ingrainedsocial

pur-pose

fromthe

outset.It’sw

hatMs

Meldrum

calls‘‘profitswith

purpose’’anidea

awarded

byglobalaccreditation

asa

B-Corporation,w

hichW

holeK

idshas.ForM

elissaA

bu-Gazaleh,the

nextstepin

creatingsocialchange

isre-engaging

men,

andyoung

men

inparticular.

Ms

Abu-

Gazaleh,

whose

organisationT

opBlokes

Foundationw

orksw

ithabout

1400young

men

eachyear,said

peopleused

tolaugh

atthe

ideaofa

girlhelpingm

en.‘‘’You’re

agirl,you

shouldbe

doingthings

with

girls’,theysaid.‘‘I

thoughtyes

that’strue

butthere’ssomething

elseto

ittoo.‘‘It’s

rootcauseanalysis.W

hatisthe

root

causeofdiscrim

ination?It’s

theem

beddedview

softhosein

power,w

hichistypically

inm

ostcasesstillmen

insom

ecountries.’’

Ifyou

want

tochange

men’s

behaviour,M

sA

bu-Gazaleh

said,thereneeds

tobe

anongoing

conversation,particularly

toensure

youngm

encan

engagew

iththe

broadersocial

culture,and

tochange

theem

beddednarrative.

‘‘Itcan’tbea

one-offconversation.Ifyouw

anttochange

culture,it’snotaboutbeing

theloudestvoice,it’s

aboutbeingthe

most

consistentvoice.’’