Advocates in Action

2022:

34 men faculty across all MGH departments received training by Workplace Allies W. Brad Johnson, and David G. Smith, authors of Good Guys: How Men Can Be Better Allies for Women in the Workplace. The training included expanding gender awareness, validating and normalizing women’s experiences, and concrete steps in how to be an active upstander for women as well as the the crucial role of sponsorship. The goal after this training has been for these men to share what they have learned with both men and women in their departments, identify and train other men to be better allies for women, and with them grow advocacy for departmental and organizational change.

 

2024:

The CFD invited 30 faculty across genders and departments to participate in 8 weekly training workshops on how to be better advocates for women faculty. The workshops were led by a cohort of 20 MGH faculty who have taken prior training with authors Brad Johnson and David Smith of Good Guys: How Men Can Be Better Allies for Women in the Workplace. The purpose of this initiative is that those who attended this training will bring back what they learned to their departments, train others to be advocates and support their fellow faculty, and work to implement changes to support and promote women in the department.

 

We look forward to our next training in 2025. Please contact us at womens.careers@partners.org with any questions.

• Women's Experiences with Male Allies
• Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People
• Engaging Men in Gender Initiatives: What Change Agents Need to Know
• Exploring Faculty Salary Equity at U.S. Medical Schools by Gender and Race/Ethnicity
• Five Ways Men Can Improve Gender Diversity at Work
• How Men Can Decenter So Women Can Step Up
• Men Are Afraid to Mentor Women - Here is what we can do about it
• MGI Power of Parity Full Report - September 2015
  • Executive Summary
• Promising Practices for Understanding and Addressing Salary Equity at U.S. Medical Schools
• The Design of Everyday Men: A new lens for gender equality progress
• The Only Woman in the Room
• “Women as Deficit”: Re-evaluating Interventions to Establish Gender Equity
• Impact of Mentoring on Academic Career Success for Women in Medicine: A Systematic Review
• Other publications of interest for Men Allies for Women
• Other resources for Men Allies recommended by Brad Johnson and David Smith
  • Listen: When Men Mentor Women. W. Brad Johnson & David G. Smith (October 24, 2018) HBR Ideacast: Harvard Business Review.
  • Mentoring Women Is Not About Trying to “Rescue” Them. David G. Smith & W. Brad Johnson (March 14, 2018) Harvard Business Review.
  • Lots of men are Gender-Equality Allies in Private. Why Not in Public? W. Brad Johnson & David G. Smith (October, 2017) Harvard Business Review.
  • The Best Mentors Think Like Michelangelo. W. Brad Johnson & David G. Smith (January 23, 2018) Harvard Business Review.
  • How Masculinity Contests Undermine Organizations, and What to Do About It. Berdahl, J. et al. (2018). Harvard Business Review.
  • How to Talk About Sexual Harassment with Your Coworkers. Harvard Gallo, A. (2017) Harvard Business Review.
  • How Men Get Penalized for Straying from Masculine Norms. Mayer, D. (2018). Harvard Business Review.
  • Why Tech’s Approach to Fixing Its Gender Inequality Isn’t Working. Wynn, A. (2019, October) Harvard Business Review.
  • Male Mentors Shouldn’t Hesitate to Challenge Their Female Mentees. David G. Smith & W. Brad Johnson (May 29, 2017) Harvard Business Review.
  • Athena rising: How and why men should mentor women. W. B. Johnson, & D. G. Smith (2016). Boston, Harvard Business Review Press.
  • Mentoring Someone with Imposter Syndrome. W. Brad Johnson & David G. Smith (February 22, 2019) Harvard Business Review.
  • Real Mentorship Starts with Company Culture, Not Formal Programs. W. Brad Johnson & David G. Smith (December 30, 2019). Harvard Business Review.
  • Why diversity programs fail and what works better. Dobbin, F., & Kalev, A. (2016) Harvard Business Review.
  • Designing a bias-free organization. Morse, G. (2016) Harvard Business Review.
  • Research: Men Are Worse Allies Than They Think. W. Brad Johnson, David G. Smith, Kim Graham Lee, & Jeanette Thebeau (2022) Harvard Business Review.