Rather than paying lip service to women for International Women’s Day, let’s really honor our female counterparts with meaningful support. Here are some ideas for you:
- Believe women
- Stop interrupting women when talking
- Go through a mixed-gender meeting without saying anything but taking notes and truly listening
- Stop mansplaining
- Put your neck out there and call out sexism
- Push to release the Epstein files
- Stop hiring only your male buddies for the job
- Give up your committee seat of power to a woman
- Take ownership of your kid’s activities and parenting them
- Learn how to cook for your family and do that most days of the week
- Practice egalitarianism in your romantic relationships
- Keep your wife’s appointments on your calendar
- Pay women equal for the same job
- Support women’s reproductive rights
- Support LGBTQ rights
- Support human services to support women and children
- Take initiative for your life and don’t expect women to mother you
- Do your share of emotional labor in your marriage and with your kids
- Say “I was wrong, you were right” and mean it
- Unlearn patriarchy and unhook it from all your spheres of life
I hope this helps. Any other ideas? Please write them in the comments.