Table 2.
Additional Quotes Regarding Ways People Fulfilled Their Pledges
| Ways pledges fulfilled | ||
|---|---|---|
| Gender | Role | Quote |
| Explicit: Policies, best practices, or procedures. Directing resources toward goals. | ||
| Man | Staff | (I) noticed that there was a deficiency in equality, and a violation of the ACA [regarding women expressing breast milk]. (I) brought my concerns to [the Ombuds Office] and worked with them to understand the requirements of the ACA and to identify [potential lactation-room] locations on campus. |
| Man | Faculty | Specific discussions occurred and more attention was paid to what appeared to be gender compensation inequities. |
| Woman | Staff | In my department most of our senior leaders are male. I brought this to the attention to my senior leadership group and we incorporated a process to obtain needed feedback from our female leaders to create balance in leadership guidance. |
| Semiexplicit: Power dynamics and increasing connections and improving relationships | ||
| Man | Faculty | I declined an invitation to be a subject matter expert on an all-male panel… and suggested a more-qualified female colleague to be on the panel in my place, an invitation she accepted. |
| Woman | Staff | Selecting a pledge that encouraged [me to] bring others into discussions and decisions was a good task for me. A nice way to stretch. |
| Woman | Staff | I [am] speaking more candidly and openly with leaders and peers when asked for input… and striving to acknowledge my own accomplishments by not shying away from bringing them up in the appropriate context and by recognizing their full impact. |
| Implicit: Changing mental models—how I think. | ||
| Man | Faculty | Increased amount of empathy considering the work situation of mothers around me, this has become a real world exercise as my wife and I alternate the anchor parent role. |
| Woman | Faculty | Reading through other pledges increased my awareness in general of issues I may not have otherwise put into words. |
| Woman | Staff | Gender equity issues demand that we ask more questions about a situation rather than just adding up hours worked or absences logged. It drove me to ask questions of myself like ‘How could this situation bring about positive change for my team? What is the story behind the numbers?… Lesson learned? Ask why. Ask how. |
ACA, Affordable Care Act.