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osa Parks was
probably scared when she took part in the Montgomery Bus Boycott in the
mid-1950s: she and her fellow protestors were “tired of giving in”. That same
spirit has triggered the #Me Too movement today: people finally finding the
courage and support to come out against sexual harassment and assault at work.
The laws that Parks and her colleagues helped precipitate in the mid-60s are
only effective when companies are as vigilant about righting these and other
wrongs as they are about protecting their otherwise clean reputations. During
my career I learned that overcoming the fear of speaking up could often be as
challenging as preventing the kinds of behaviors and actions that prompted the
need to speak up in the first place: this applied also to the subtle (and
sometimes not so subtle) forms of retaliation that also took place. Everyone is
responsible for creating the kind of environment where employees are never
fearful about doing what’s right today.
Rosa Parks (1913 – 2005): The United
States Congress called her "the first lady of civil rights" and
"the mother of the freedom movement"
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