One person who helps women can reach hundreds of them.

Three levels of help

Help one woman. Help the people who help women. Help change the conditions.

These are different ways to be useful, not steps anyone has to climb. A woman can get what she needs at the first level and stop there.

Coaches, consultants and mentors

Look at the conditions, not only the woman.

When a client says she's been passed over or told she needs "more presence," the usual advice is to work on herself. Sometimes that helps. But it's worth looking at the situation around her first: how the decision was made, who had authority, and what the criteria actually were.

Please don't send me a client's account. If a client wants a private read of her own situation, Houston is a separate service she can choose for herself.

Women who help other women

For the people already doing this work.

Network founders, speakers, community leaders, educators and the women who quietly mentor others: you can share any page on this site, use the questions in a group, or run the AI exercise in a workshop. Nothing here needs sign-up or payment.

If you'd like to explore working together, I'd be glad to talk. I won't name anyone as a partner or supporter of this work without their agreement.

Women's associations, networks and unions

How shared concerns have become change before.

The two-way chart shows how individual experiences can, if women choose, become shared evidence and a case for change, and how laws come back down to the women they're meant for. Changing the Rules traces three laws this way, including British Columbia's Pay Transparency Act, and the Resources page links to the original documents.

Collective patterns should only be built from women's accounts with their agreement, with safeguards, and to clear evidence standards. A free research contribution is being planned but isn't open yet.

Researchers, organizations and industries

Examine what needs to change.

Researchers and educators: the Resources library lists each source with its publisher, year and type. Figures used elsewhere on this site have been checked against their sources, and limits are stated.

Industries and professional bodies: the engineering and science section of Women at Work includes practical questions about credit, authority and assignments that apply across a sector.

Businesses and leadership teams: XRAY is a framework in development for asking whether concerns raised by the people closest to the work reach someone who can act on them. It isn't validated, and I'm open about its stage. Leaders who want to examine their own practices may also find the Male Allies page useful, whatever their gender.

Choose a place to start

Where to go next.

These resources can inform professional conversations and leadership practice. Using them doesn't create training, certification, endorsement or partnership, or permission to present these methods as validated.