Gender Equity Toolkit (DIY Print & Play kit)

Have you ever wondered if your gender is affecting your ability to progress professionally? Well this Toolkit is for you! The Gender Equity Toolkit is easy to use whether you’re in the the boardroom or the classroom, to strengthen empathy and equity to help re-program the implicit biases we all have buried deep within our brains. About the Toolkit Designer and sociologist Dr. Leyla Acaroglu partnered with the Women's Lead Initiative at the AIGA to explore some of the structural forces that are preventing women from achieving equitable access to leadership positions within the design sector. Leyla discovered through interviews, workshops, and literature analysis that one of the biggest issues is that the preformed framework of what leadership should look like is currently inherently masculine. This creates a double bind: women find they must adopt male leadership traits to get into a leadership position, but once there, they are penalized for not fulfilling the gendered expectations of