Women play an essential role in social and economic activities. Apart from honoring International Women’s day, it is also crucial to pay attention to their progress in your workplace throughout the year. As a business owner or leader, it is essential to create or often host events that discuss diversity, inclusion, gender equality, or fairness to create a more accommodating environment. Moreover, diverse organizations are usually more successful since they leverage multiple viewpoints and innovation. The following are ways for empowering women in your workplace.

Celebrate Everyone’s Strengths

It is essential to create a habit of acknowledging the accomplishments or strengths of your peers. The misconception that someone does not need praise in adulthood is misleading and false. Apart from combating imposter syndrome, celebrating someone’s strengths also helps retain good employees. Besides, lack of recognition is one of the reasons why people leave an organization.

Connect Them With Female Mentors

Sharing experiences and stories is one of the best ways of changing minds and provoking action. Therefore, connecting your female colleagues or workers with female mentors is an effective way of empowering women workers to succeed in your organization in your firm and the sector in general.

For instance, Sacred Women Book suggests that you can nurture a woman's career by connecting her with established people in the profession, including female leaders and entrepreneurs. This also helps build their ability to thrive and have confidence in their career.

Incorporate Less Experienced Women in Major Projects

One of the best ways to nurture people's careers is by incorporating them into major projects. You can consider picking a woman directly or suggesting one based on your delegation power whenever a chance arises. This provides an opportunity for her to lead or play an essential role in the project. Nowadays, more women continue to play crucial political, social, and economic roles previously perceived to be for men.

Be Approachable and Offer Guidance where Necessary

Some women possess a subconscious notion that there are few opportunities for them. This may prompt them to fight potential competitors to leverage their chances. Unfortunately, some men also suffer from this belief. Although women hold few senior positions worldwide, you can combat this issue by helping each other by providing mentorship or any other form of help.

Create Open Discussions about Wages and Salaries

Being open about salary matters is crucial in addressing the equal pay question. Unfortunately, some organizations still actively discourage this by terming it inappropriate or unprofessional. One of the main reasons some companies discourage openness is the failure to offer fair payments.

Since this is still termed a taboo subject, many women usually shy from feeling confident to discuss or negotiate their payment. It would help if you created a free and open environment by discussing salary issues with workers, especially women.

Set Realistic and Measurable Targets

Typically, women have to prove themselves compared to men. Therefore, you should make it easy for them to set measurable and realistic targets. You can achieve this by adopting key performance indicators (KPIs) to help clear any ambiguities when discussing payments and promotions.

Accept and Embrace Individuality

It is also crucial to accept that women are different. One of the ways of empowering women within your organization is embracing individuality. Besides, you should not accept them for adhering to a stereotypical feminine idea, and also, you should not hold them back when this happens.

Nowadays, any form of discrimination in society, including gender discrimination, should be highly discouraged and condemned. Women should be offered equal opportunities and build and nurture their careers.