5 December 2016,<\/p>\n
On White Ribbon Day Newington boys once again joined the walk at Randwick to make a pledge and take a stand against Violence Against Women. Marching with several hundred men and women from other schools and community groups, our Black and White brigade made sure that fighting gender inequality and domestic violence was not something to be taken lightly.<\/p>\n
At assembly that day,\u00a0Angus Powell (11\/PR)<\/strong>,\u00a0Ben Serone (11\/MA)<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Ashutosh Bidkar (11\/FL)<\/strong>\u00a0introduced boys to a new Gender Equality group they had set up at the College. Following in the footsteps of this year\u2019s Senior Prefects, who also spoke strongly and passionately against Violence against Women, ANZ\u2019s Head of Diversity Fiona Krautil was invited to speak to the boys about gender inequality.<\/p>\n Ms Krautil did not sugarcoat the reality of gender inequality in Australian society drawing on statistics about the absence of women in high profile positions at reputable organisations from universities and government to banks and big corporations.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cSexism is woven into the fabric of everyday life,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n \u201cMost [male] CEOs don\u2019t realise there is any gender inequality until their daughters enter the workplace.\u201d<\/p>\n At the moment Ms Krautil is working CEOs and senior executive members to train them on the invisible bias towards men and guiding them in how to stop this and become champions of change.\u00a0<\/p>\n Speaking up about gender inequality does not only mean\u00a0we are standing up for our sisters, partners, mothers and daughters, but it also frees up traditional and rigid definitions of what it means to be a man.<\/p>\n \u201cFor mental health, we must embrace more diverse ways of being a man,\u201d she added.\u00a0<\/p>\n She urged boys to speak the truth even if their voices shook. They could start with a small group of people and it could be about something like sexting, sexist jokes and using derogatory language.<\/p>\n \u201cWomen have been working hard on this for many years, but the research says that this is about both men and women standing up.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 5 December 2016, On White Ribbon Day Newington boys once again joined the walk at Randwick to make a pledge and take a stand against Violence Against Women. Marching with several hundred men and women from other schools and community … read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":915,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/insites.newington.nsw.edu.au\/servicelearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/insites.newington.nsw.edu.au\/servicelearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/insites.newington.nsw.edu.au\/servicelearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insites.newington.nsw.edu.au\/servicelearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insites.newington.nsw.edu.au\/servicelearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/insites.newington.nsw.edu.au\/servicelearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":917,"href":"https:\/\/insites.newington.nsw.edu.au\/servicelearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions\/917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insites.newington.nsw.edu.au\/servicelearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/insites.newington.nsw.edu.au\/servicelearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insites.newington.nsw.edu.au\/servicelearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insites.newington.nsw.edu.au\/servicelearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}