Those in the Melbourne office may have said or heard this before: “… a soy decaf what?” I’ve had workplace burnout three times (I didn’t know that was what it was called the first time). This is not something I am proud of, as clearly it is evidence that I don’t learn from past experience! […]
Ai Mawdsley
So are you just a diversity hire?
This week is International Women’s Day and whilst I am hesitant to pile on to the IWD flood of content - it would be weird to pass the day without some sort of acknowledgement! So rather than posting something token, I wanted to attempt to answer the second part of that journalist’s question
Why I’ve loathed the minority label (and didn’t get why IWD was such a big deal)
Unwittingly, I manage to tick a number of diversity boxes: female, person of colour, part-timer, working mum, person of faith. But for most of my life, I have felt zero connection to the “minority” label. At times I have actually loathed it.