3 Ways Your Company Can Support Women & Girls

As women and girls take an increasingly greater command of their present lives and business and personal futures, the companies and corporations they work for are looking for ways to get behind them. From investing in women-owned businesses to establishing a corporate policy of equal pay to ensuring company-wide diversity, opportunities to do so abound. If your business is looking for ways to champion women and girls, you’ll appreciate the methods outlined in today’s blog. They provide three simple ways to offer the support and encouragement that help women uncover their potential, overcome systemic obstacles, and reach their fullest potential.

1. Provide A Mentorship
   Serving as a mentor allows you to share your wisdom, knowledge, and experiences with a young woman who wants to travel on the same road to success. Mentoring can take many forms – apprenticeships, volunteerism, or tutoring. When you provide mentorship and encourage other women in your company to do the same, you influence a young woman’s and enhance your own.

   Check with your local elementary and high schools for openings for tutors and career coaches. Community colleges and local universities are also excellent place to offer to mentor career-minded young women. Finally, check with volunteer groups and organizations such as Boy’s and Girl’s clubs and after school programs.

2. Provide An Education
   As abundant as schools and institutions of higher learning are in the US, not all education is created equally. By providing apprenticeships, access to books, subscriptions, and relevant reading, and scholarships, you give women and girls the opportunity to educate themselves and to increase their formal education. The knowledge they gain can go a long way toward positioning them for a bright future.

   Women in many developing and third world countries often have little to no access to education. By sponsoring access to basic education for girls and women in these parts of the world, you change more than their education. You change their lives and their futures.

3. Provide A Voice
   One voice can provide an opportunity to be heard for one woman or for a community of women. Many voices raised in unison can create lasting change. How will your company use its voice? Tell the women in your company, the women in your life, and the women in your community that they matter. Supporting women is, after all, everyone’s responsibility. In the words of Mary Church Terrell, a leading activist for racial and gender equality and women’s rights, “lift as you climb.”

   When your company or corporation raises its voice in support of girls and women and the causes that advocate for them, you open the door for others to provide similar support. You also make it possible for other businesses and individuals to make similar contributions.

At DPRINT, we believe in celebrating the present and investing in the future. Click here to read more about our policy on social conscience and sustainability. In essence, it states that in addition to caring for our environment, our company owner and CEO actively support women and girls on a local, national, and global level. We believe in equal pay for equal work, company-wide diversity, and the personal and economic empowerment of women and girls all over the world.