RESPECT

RESPECT

1. Key Point: Respect is valuing others and acting according to our own and others’ rights, status, and circumstances

   • Institution: Respect Group (eliminates bullying, abuse, harassment and discrimination by inspiring respect)
   • Gospel: Luke 6: 31 Jesus Calls His First Disciples
   • Culture: In the Asian culture specifically in Japan, respect is the backbone of the culture and its ingrained in their rituals and traditions.
   • Mentor: "If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die" Maya Angelou
   • Individual Activity: Individuals may help and look out for other individuals as a sign of respect.
   • Community Activity: Women often don't speak out because they think its their fault, so workplaces could have programs where speakers come discuss workplace respect and how to respect your colleagues.
   • Institution Stats: 95% of employees felt it would help them be a more respectful employee and 96% felt better equipped to identify and respond to incidents of discrimination, harassment and bullying"
   • Virtue
   • Interrelgious: Women have held positions of respect in Judaism since biblical times

2. Key Point: Everyone should be respectful and be given the same opportunities. Through respect we allow people to enjoy their freedom.

   • Institution: Times Up Movement (founded on the premise that every human being deserves the right to take care of their famiilies free of harassment)
   • Gospel: Matthew 7: 7-12 Ask, Seek, Knock
   • Culture: In the Latin American culture they place a high value on demonstrating respecto in interactions with others, which translates into respect.
   • Mentor: "For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others" Nelson Mandela
   • Individual Activity: Individuals could speak out against injustice. If they see someone being mistreated at work they could discuss it with someone out of respect for that person.
   • Community Activity: Show women that are victims of disrespect laws that are in place against discrimination at work. Women will realize that this disrespect lessens their human dignity and human decency and they can fight to change it.
   • Interreligious: Sikhism is a faith of tolerance and respect for all others.
   • Institution Stats: TIME’S UP Legal Defense Fund (which has raised over 20 mil) will provide legal support to women and men who have experienced mistreatment at work.
   • Justice

3. Key Point: Respectful people are kinder and more willing to help others in a community. When people respect others beliefs and rights it creates a more stable environment for everyone

   • Institution: Strong Women Strong Girls (empowers girls to imagine a broader future)
   • Gospel: John 13: 1-17 Jesus Washes His Disciples’ Feet
     • Interreligious: “And whosoever obeys God and His Messenger, fears God, and keeps his duty (to Him), such are the successful ones.” (Quran 24:52)
   • Culture: Amish women tend to have a strong sense of identity, and are highly respected in Amish society.
   • Mentor: "If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are" John W. Gardner
   • Individual Activity: Individuals could push for equality. Getting paid the same is a sign of respect.It is better for the common good if those feel they are getting acknowledged
   • Community Activity: Having women attend a church event for women in the workplace to discuss their experiences with disrespect without fear of retribution.
   • Common Good
   • Institution Stats: They are reinventing mentoring with 10 years of proven results. WSG provided programming to over 1,400 girls in Boston, Pittsburgh and several pilot programs at over 100 schools

4. Key Point: If we respect others it creates a positive atmosphere for everyone. Respect brings inclusion.

   • Institution: UltraViolet (powerful community of people fighting for a more inclusive world for women)
   • Gospel :Luke 14:10 Jesus at a Pharisee’s House
   • Interreligious: Hindus believe the soul is in every living creature. So all living creatures should deserve respect.
   • Culture: In the Sub-Saharan Africa, respect is embedded in their culture especially towards people, land, and animals.
   • Mentor: "We should all consider each other as human beings, and we should respect each other" Malala Yousafzai
   • Individual Activity: Individuals could be inclusive in the work place. Inclusion is a sign of respect, and will bring a better work environment for all.
   • Community Activity: Women could write down their experiences with mistreatment as a therapeutic exercise in order to discuss with other women. This inclusion with other women will give confidence to those who were mistreated
   • Institution Stats: Women earn $.75 for every $1.00 earned by men, and this wage gap is even greater for women of color. UltraViolet has conducted over 30 online campaigns for women's rights.
   • Utilitarianism

5. Key Point: Everyone deserves the right to be respected. If we respect one another we don't discriminate against race, religious beliefs, or gender. Respect brings equality.

   • Institution: National Organization for Women (largest organization advocating for women's rights)
   • Culture: In the Arab culture women wear headscarves to show respect. Also in their culture just because women are typically housewives doesn't mean they aren't involved in business matters
   • Mentor "I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university." Albert Einstein
   • Individual Activity: Individuals could treat each other equally no matter what their job is and no matter their gender because its the right thing to do.
   • Community Activity: We could to teach and educate women on their rights so they can get the courage to speak out
   • Rights
   • Institution Stats: NOW has hundreds of chapters and hundreds of thousands of members and activists in all 50 states. In 1999, Fortune 500 Project launched as part of NOW’s Women-Friendly Workplace Campaign
   • Gospel: John 13: 31-38 Jesus Predicts Peter’s Denial
   • Interreligious: The Buddha said that the ability to feel respect is a great blessing.