Ladies’s Historical past Month is an annual alternative to focus on the contributions of ladies to vital occasions in American historical past and fashionable society. 

All through the month of March, we honor ladies previous and current for bringing new views and concepts to the fore, pushing the boundaries of how and the place ladies have been allowed to take part in society. 

Whereas ladies have been central to vital occasions all through historical past, their contributions have additionally been missed and underappreciated. Now, as we write the tales that inform our collective historical past, we perceive the significance of precisely framing historic occasions, together with the views of these so usually not noted of the narrative. 

The Nationwide Ladies’s Historical past Alliance has decided the theme of this 12 months’s Ladies’s Historical past Month to be “Celebrating Ladies Who Inform Our Tales.” At WP Engine, the ladies crafting the narrative for this month’s programming are the worldwide leaders of Roar, WP Engine’s Worker Useful resource Group (ERG), which promotes and advocates for ladies.

Whether or not we’re accumulating female hygiene merchandise for native charities or constructing group libraries at our world places of work, learn on to see what the ladies (and males and nonbinary workers) of WP Engine have in retailer for Ladies’s Historical past Month!

“Sponsorship and mentorship matter, and having a group round you who’re sensible and inventive and beneficiant will make all of the distinction on the planet,” Gilmore stated. 

“I can’t say that I don’t have moments of imposter syndrome, however if you push your self and put your self on the market, even when it’s simply digitally, you can begin constructing the help community that it is advisable to develop.”

To spherical out the month, Roar leaders have specialised programming in retailer for all of WP Enigne’s world workplace hubs in addition to a approach for our distant workers (who make up nearly half of our workforce!) to take part. These actions will convey workers collectively as they struggle one thing new, set new objectives, and be taught new issues. 

Whether or not workers are attempting their arms at cross sew in Omaha, making a imaginative and prescient board in Limerick, (which was simply acknowledged as one among Eire’s Greatest Workplaces for Ladies), answering trivia questions in London or Austin, accumulating female hygiene merchandise for native charities, or just sharing in dialog, these actions will assist us construct stronger communities in every of our world places. 

For our distant employees too removed from a hub to take part in particular person, leaders are placing collectively a GoodReads listing together with works by some wonderful feminine authors! 

Irrespective of the situation, our workers are getting the prospect to take part in Ladies’s Historical past Month.

WP Engine strongly encourages every of our workers to convey their whole selves to work. What does that imply? Nicely, put merely, it signifies that you shouldn’t really feel like it’s a must to suppress vital elements of your id for the 40 hours per week you’re at work. 

In actual fact, we consider that after we take all our experiences, passions, struggles, and strengths into the office, we might be extra artistic, simpler, and happier at work.

We constructed our ERGs with this concept in thoughts. WP Engine presently has eight ERGs, every of which helps our workers in numerous methods.

• Department: connects caregivers inside the group and serves as a community of help as workers navigate the intersection {of professional} and private accountability as caregivers 
• Embrace: offers advocacy and help for seen, invisible, and power disabilities and sicknesses.
• Flourish: offers an open and welcoming group for workers to hunt and supply help; educate and be taught; and advocate for each other on the matters of psychological well being, neurodiversity, and particular person wellness.
• Hue: offers a secure, open setting to advertise, educate, and advocate for LGBTQ+ individuals and allies.
• Open Hearts: the charitable arm of WP Engine, this group works on the intersection of ardour and group want, focusing totally on native well being, starvation, and schooling initiatives.
• Refresh: offers a worldwide group of people who wish to make a optimistic affect on the setting and have an effect on change on the particular person, regional, and world ranges.
• Rise: offers a secure and open setting to advertise, educate, and advocate for BIPOC and allies.
• Roar: offers a secure, open setting to advertise, educate, and advocate for ladies in positions or industries the place ladies have traditionally been underrepresented

In case you’re searching for a profession alternative in an setting that encourages you to be authentically your self, WP Engine has distant positions throughout the globe! Try our careers web page to seek out the appropriate position for you!