How often have you experienced equality – especially in the world of work? And was it true equality or was it actually privilege? ( Because true equality means everyone would have had the same experience that you did – would they? )
Most of us have had experiences of being treated unequally, unjustly and unfairly and for those of us who belong to one or more deliberately (by design) disadvantaged communities, this is a regular occurrence.
The prevalence of this harm means that in our work we regularly encounter pessimism, fatalism and an inability to imagine what an equal world might look and feel like. Despite feminism, the Stonewall riots, Black Lives Matter and numerous other significant moments in history, we continue to live – by design – in a grossly unequal system.