When you are in a small rural place with cold weather and a lot of granite, you need people who are going to work hard, and you really stop worrying about what gender they are.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The men I worked for didn't look at me as having any gender at all. They regarded me more as a workhorse.
There are probably industries where gender is more of an issue, but our industry is not one where I think that's relevant.
My childhood was as heavily gendered as any you would find in a working-class household in Lincolnshire.
If you look at your companies, and half of your staff are not female, and a decent percentage of them are not people of color, then you are part of the problem because you need people working for you and you need people in positions of leadership who can exercise their bias and who can exercise their perspective.
A lot of professions happen to be male-dominated because women drop out at a certain point. It's unfortunate.
In the Philippines, we don't have that much of a problem. There's not much difference between the men and the women. In our business, we always have a good mixture of the men and the women.
I don't care what gender someone is, or what race they are. Those things don't matter to me.
In my community, women are as important as males, and they are playing an equal role in the society.
I always find it amazing that people get mad because they can't figure out my gender. Even though my only job here is to create art, I think being a genderless figure... it shakes people. And when that happens, it makes me feel like I'm doing my job.
As a partner in a firm full of women who work outside of the home as well as stay at home mothers, all with plenty of children, gender equality is not a talking point for me. It is an issue I live every day.