5 Reasons Your Business Should Celebrate Women’s Equality Day

As you head into the weekend, take a moment to make plans for celebrating the women in your professional sphere. Women’s Equality Day 2018 is celebrated on Sunday, August 26, in commemoration of the 19^th constitutional amendment, and the 1920 proclamation, giving women in the United States the constitutional right to cast their votes in all elections. This day of celebration is important to everyone, not just women because it reiterates the fact that equal treatment is not a feminine issue, but a societal one.

From that first day of victorious celebration to this one, women continue to make great strides, to blaze trails, to break new ground, and to make history. Men, women, and businesses can champion women in the workplace by sharing their stories, by lifting each other as they climb, and by publicly acknowledging the contributions women make to the workforce. Your business can get in on the act, too. Here are five reasons your company should celebrate Women’s Equality Day and five simple ways your company can celebrate and support women and the girls who are following in their footsteps.

1. The Next Generation Is Watching
   Your company should support women because the coming generations of girls will be tech savvy, smart business owners and corporate executives. This is one of the easier ways to get involved – simply choose a girl, school, or community and offer to mentor them or have other members of your staff serve as mentors.
2. Women Owned Businesses Are Plentiful In Every Industry
   Every business in existence relies on other businesses to provide products, manufacturing, and professional services. Your company can support women by choosing to do work with a woman-owned business. Doing so helps women business owners thrive and exposes your business to a whole new pool of talent.
3. Your Social Media Presence Carries Weight
   Using your social media presence to champion women and girls is a strategic business move. It gets the attention of your target market and encourages them to actively – and proactively – support women-led businesses as well.
4. You Can Create An Open Dialogue With Colleagues
   As CEO of your corporation, you have the ability to reach internal and external colleagues and share the importance of fair pay, fair treatment, and fair opportunities for women. When you establish a policy of fairness and diversity, your colleagues and target market will sit up and pay attention.
5. You’ll Experience Mutual Benefit

Women’s equality truly benefits everyone. It provides women with opportunity, provides girls with inspiration and role models, and provides companies with hardworking, productive employees with enviable skillsets.

DPRINT is proud to be a women-owned, woman-led company. We take great pride in celebrating Women’s Equality Day and in advocating for and supporting women in our company and in our community. You can read more about our commitment to fair hiring practices and equal pay in our social responsibility policy. We’re committed to lifting as we climb and invite you to join us in helping women forge exciting new chapters in their personal and professional lives and in helping today’s girls become tomorrow’s women.