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Shared responsibility, stronger business: The case for gender partnership
Learn how gender partnership supports inclusion, business performance, and manager effectiveness, and actions you can take to be a gender partner.
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Executive summary
This suite of solutions helps organizations address some of today's most pressing workforce challenges:
- Strengthening manager effectiveness.
- Improving employee engagement and retention.
- Sustaining progress on inclusion in a changing environment.
- Equipping employees with practical ways to contribute to a healthier workplace culture.
Gender partnership shows managers and employees how inclusion is a shared responsibility. And it drives actions, pointing them to research-backed behaviors they can practice in everyday work to advance gender equity and create better outcomes for people and organizations.
Why you need these resources
Organizations spend millions developing leaders, yet many struggle to identify which leadership behaviors are actually driving business results. Catalyst research reveals that employees whose managers demonstrate five gender partnership behaviors are significantly more likely to describe their organizations as places where people want to work, organizations with strong reputations, organizations prepared for future challenges, and organizations that outperform competitors.
Yet, only 54% of leaders demonstrate these behaviors.
Move from insight to action
Use Catalyst’s gender partnership research and suite of solutions to identify, teach, and reinforce the everyday behaviors that strengthen trust, engagement, accountability, and business performance across your organization.
Gender partnership resources
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Executive brief: Shared responsibility, stronger business: The case for gender partnership
Catalyst research finds that leaders and employees who engage in gender partnership report greater feelings of inclusion contributing to workplaces that thrive.
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Infographic: Shared responsibility, stronger business: The case for gender partnership
Catalyst research finds that employees who engage in gender partnership report greater feelings of inclusion contributing to workplaces that thrive.
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Gender partnership: Canada
Learn how gender partnership supports inclusion, business performance, and manager effectiveness in Canada.
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Gender partnership: Germany
Learn how gender partnership supports inclusion, business performance, and manager effectiveness in Germany.
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Gender partnership: Netherlands
Learn how gender partnership supports inclusion, business performance, and manager effectiveness in the Netherlands.
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Gender partnership: United Kingdom
Learn how gender partnership supports inclusion, business performance, and manager effectiveness in the United Kingdom.
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Gender partnership: United States
Learn how gender partnership supports inclusion, business performance, and manager effectiveness in the United States.
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What is gender partnership?
Use this infographic to learn the basics of gender partnership.
Guide
Gender partnership: What, why, how
This tool explains what gender partnership looks like, why engaging men in gender partnership is important, and how to implement this strategy in your organization, with real-life stories from MARC program attendees that bring this concept to life.
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Gender partnership: What’s in it for men — and organizations?
Men who participate in gender equity efforts report meaningfully better workplace experiences. Learn how.
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Become a gender partner in four steps
This infographic outlines the four steps in becoming a gender partner with examples and actions.
Knowledge Burst
The five B’s of gender partnership: Knowledge Burst
This microlearning outlines the five B’s of gender partnership — providing practical and tactical guidance for leaders, managers, and executives.
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The five B’s of gender partnership
This infographic outlines the roadmap to gender partnership with the 5 B’s.
Book
Men at Work
The Catalyst book, Men at Work, offers research-backed insights, practical solutions, and powerful stories from the workplace — calling on all of us in leadership to engage as “gender partners” to create change that drives workplace fairness and inclusion for all.
Solution
MARC by Catalyst
MARC, Mutual Accountability, Real Change, is a Catalyst initiative that inspires and equips men to be advocates for change in the workplace.