1. Reaching Gender Equality
Determining what steps to take
Interactive Workshop prepared by Leslie Erway Wright, Zonta International Advisor to the UN Committee and President, Zonta Club of Brooklyn
Zonta NAIDM, meeting on June 8, 2019 in Dallas TX

2. How we will work in the next 90 minutes
Welcome and Greetings – 3 minutes
Getting to know you – an exercise designed to get to know each other – 10 minutes
Brainstorming the issues – sharing the things we think are most important – 17 minutes
Mini lecture – 10 minutes
Table talk – taking the issues in groups to share how we will achieve the objectives – 25 minutes
Presentations – groups share their work with the large group – 18 minutes
Setting our priorities and goals, including next steps – 17 minutes

3. Getting to know you
Complete your index card: Name, , Club name and location, what do you want to get out of this session
Share it with one other person
Introduce each other to another group of four
Summarize your expectations to report to the large group
Collect the cards and give them to the moderator

4. Brainstorming the issues
Think about what issues keep women and girls from achieving gender equality – write these on sticky pads
Share these with your table – 5 minutes
Share them with the main group – issues are written on sticky pads and then stuck on large sheets around the room

5. Women’s rights are the main indicator of the state of development of a society

6. Equal opportunities for women and men
Ability to use their talents in the workplace
Financial independence
Full citizenship
Full access to education, health care, ownership, information, internet
There is a need for profound change

7. With so many issues, how can we focus?
Equal Work opportunities and Equal Pay
Equal educational opportunities
Equal health care
Body politics
Human rights
Wealth and assets
Power
Laws and enforcement
Keeping women in their place
Relationships/culture

8. Within each issue are lots of other issues Equal work opportunities/Equal Pay
No country has achieved gender equality or equal pay
Legal implementation is irregular – Me, too!
Less pay; different jobs; different constraints
“Invisible work”
Race, ethnicity – pay differs – Asian women are 90%, white 80%, black 63%, native 57% and Hispanic women 54%
Support for families - Maternity/paternity leave, child care, etc. – US NO!

9. Strategies for change Do one thing well Work in coalition
Move the needle
Step it up
Work for change – internal, with others
Measure progress and share it
Stay focused and motivated

10. Zonta priorities Ending early marriage
Ending violence against women – ZISVAW
Equal pay
Goal 5 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Women’s Human Rights – Equal Rights

11. Table Talk
Large sheets with issues and strategies will be given to each table
15 minutes to read and talk about the issues
10 minutes to prepare the table presentation

12. Presentations
Each group will share in turn the results of their discussions – 15 minutes
At the end of the presentations the group will vote on which priorities should be set at the club level – 3 minutes

13. Setting our goals
Looking at the list of priorities, tables will discuss the overall goal – 5 minutes
Tables will share their perspectives with the large group – 10 minutes
Wrap up and next steps – 2 minutes