Stay Safe and Keep Counting: 6 Easy Ways to Use the GA Tally at Home
What a difference just a few weeks makes. Conferences are cancelled. Virtual communication is taking over. Our kids are our new “co-workers”. We are checking in on loved ones. Pets are being even more comforting than they usually are. We’re figuring out how to navigate food shopping, not to mention bill paying.
What to do with the hours in between working at home, watching tv at home, reading at home, and bickering at home? GenderAvenger to the rescue! Get out your GA Tally app and have some fun – although sometimes, of course, our fun comes with groans.
You can keep telling the world that gender equity counts and shouldn’t be neglected even when the world around us is changing in so many ways. We may be ensconced in our home space, but the public dialog goes on, and tracking gender balance still matters.
Check out these ideas:
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Track and tally the gender balance of conferences or panels that are held virtually. There are many women working from home who are able to carve out time to join a panel online. There are no excuses for poor balance.
2
Use the GA Tally’s Who’s Talking feature to time who’s talking more on your conference calls. This is way easier when you’re not in a room full of people!
3
Track your meal conversations, group phone calls, etc. Lots of people are finding ways to reach out to one another through virtual singalongs and happy hours.
4
Tally panels on television talk and news programs — from MSNBC, CNN, and Fox to Steven Colbert and Jimmy Fallon — we’ve got a lot more viewing time in the near future to track and make sure women are represented.
5
Track who is informing us about the virus. Does it look like this? Call it out!
6
Make a list of books you plan to read and tally the authors.
Bonus Activity
Check through your contact list and find men you want to recruit to sign the GA Pledge. Send them the link and some love.
These are just a few ways to continue our community’s mission to ensure women are represented in the public dialog. Let us know what you are doing with your GA Tally, and whatever you do, stay safe and be well.