Celebrating Women

Jennifer Wuchner

What is your organization doing to celebrate women???

Mark Guncheon

Throughout Women’s History Month, Bon Secours Mercy Health is honoring women across our ministry who are making a difference in the lives of patients, their families and our own employees. We are also offering various webinars including two "Women Talk Money" pop-up events by one of our partners, Fidelity Investments.

Crystal Bruce

Love this question Jennifer Wuchner‍ - moved it over to Organizational Best Practices for more respones. :-)

Jessica McRae

Hi Mark Guncheon‍ thanks for sharing these awesome ideas! Would love to hear what the feedback is from those who participated in these activities.

Jessica McRae

Hi Jennifer Wuchner‍! This year we decided to reach out to our employees and encouraged them to share their thoughts with us around what gender parity means to them. In the past, we have done spotlights of specific women throughout the organization, but we chose to request responses anonymously this time and it was great! We received a plethora of different responses from women at all levels in the organization and we shared a few of those quotes in a communication shared with all of our employees (global reach) on March 8. We also shared these quotes externally in our social and blog posts. In the past we've done things like, pledge walls, women empowerment Spotify playlists, customized t-shirts for employees to purchase, etc. What are you or your organization doing to celebrate women?

Gina Gillum

Love the ideas and I look forward to hearing more about them!

Faith Murray

Okay, being a bit facetious here, but isn't it sexist to "celebrate women"? What happened to the "64 different genders" ideology? If you're talking biological distinctions, what about the 1 in every 100 people born hermaphrodite or intersex? Don't get me wrong, as a woman I'm thrilled to be celebrated, but celebrating one sex and not the others seems secretly sexist to me.

Mark Guncheon

Facetious or not, I don't think it's a good idea to downplay an event celebrating one sex, or race, or whatever because the other ones are not given their own time in the sunshine (whatever that means). Instead, find someone who will give those other categories their own day, week, month to be celebrating. I hear/read this a lot during Black history month. I always learn a great deal in February because of the efforts that people take to talk/tweet/broadcast about moments in history that may be little known or discussed.


Plus, most of my colleagues are women and I don't celebrate them enough for all the hard work they do.

Faith Murray

Well said, Mark. ? I accept your analogy. As long as we don't neglect other people in the process, having a dedicated time to reflect on one topic does allow us to learn more than we otherwise would. Kudos.


And I'm sure your female coworkers are very appreciative to work with someone like you!