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To Be Legit as an Ally, Start at Home

Ally Rule #1: You don’t get to pass “go” on the ally journey until you intentionally and consistently step up as an ally at home (if you have no partner or children, you’re not off the hook here; the way you role-model self-care, work-life integration, and meeting obligations to family and friends remains vitally important). Nothing delegitimizes your ally brand so quickly as slinging on the ally cape to impress women at work while not fully supporting your partner at home. To that hollow form of allyship, we call foul. The same is true for failing to model real domestic allyship for children, keeping your own family obligations secret in the workplace, and missing opportunities to role-model full domestic ...