For international women’s day, outside of individually arranged things (like posts on the company’s social media or team events etc) the ONLY thing that my company did was interview one of our longest standing employees who’s been with the company for over 40 years to get their opinion on how the treatment of women has changed over the years.
Only the person that they chose to interview is a random man named Steve. He seems like a nice guy, he’s one of the first people to ever promote a woman into a management role, he thinks it outrageous when he started that there was no maternity leave and he finds it alarming that there used to be uniform checks where they would check the length of women’s skirts, but what I am finding especially outrageous is that they interviewed one person only to ask about how women have been treated over the years and their go-to expert, is a goddamn man!
I feel like I am going insane. I commented on the post on our intranet asking (in polite work speak) why the fuck a woman was not asked for her opinion, and the response I received from the executive manager of the “Culture, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging” team was that IWD is “an important opportunity to reflect on the progress we have made” and to “reinforce what else we can all be doing.“
I love the (all female) managers that I work under and they are all equally frustrated and upset with me, but I don’t know what to do to take this further as the response from HR and the person who approved the interview is that they’re happy with the interview and their IWD actions.
I used to love my job and feel so passionate and over the last week I now feel apathy at best and anger at worst.