I'm the CEO of 20-first, a global 'balance' consultancy. I work with C-suite teams to achieve gender and generational balance by focusing on leadership, culture and systems. I facilitate politically incorrect debates that get leaders defining the strategic business opportunities of balance (and risks of not balancing).
Rape victims usually quietly struggle with shame. France ’s Gisèle Pelicot is almost single-handedly reversing the script, by putting the shame of rape where it belongs – on the perpetrators of often-invisible crimes. She is also elegantly offering the world a role model of the power of older women, how their mature truth-telling has no time for the judgement, embarrassment or cultural narratives imposed on younger women.
The abuse went on for a decade. While Gisèle Pelicot was oblivious to what was going on, and would have been unable to prove her case, as she wasn’t a witness to it, her husband busied himself taking over 20,000 videos and photos of the proceedings. They were found on his computer, in a folder labelled ‘Fifty men are standing trial. They are self-described ‘good guys,’ fathers and husbands watching videos of themselves abusing a sleeping older lady – in public.
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