As per title
This was part of a week of events to make IWD at my public sector workplace where pronouns sit in many email addresses and some of the loos are about to be turned gender neutral. Not sure if we will lose men's or women's loos yet, I live in hope.
Anyway two interesting thing occurred.
Firstly a man grumbled repeatedly that he was steered away from the session because it was being focused on women this week. He was robustly told to come to a different session when it is re-run outside of this week. No kick - back, no requests to make room or be kind. I would probably have buckled and let him in so thanks to my female colleagues who stood firm if they read this. I think the numbers of female names on the sign-up sheet sent a message and no other men tried to attend.
Secondly, and more interestingly, not a single one of the ~30 attendees mentioned including pronouns in the 'professional introduction' statements we all prepared. I was sure they would - about half of them are under 30 and some have pronouns in their email signatures.
It brought me joy that these women were not leaping to be inclusive in their intros but instead focusing on themselves and their own achievements, just as they were supposed to