Equality in the workplace is a topic that puts everyone on the defense, but it is one of the few topics that we should fully embrace and talk about openly. Equality in the workplace isn’t about politics — until someone makes it about politics.

Many times when we see that things in the workplace are unequal it is because of systemic factors in society and underlying career funnels. For instance, a few years ago I hosted an event on Capitol Hill to celebrate female inventors. One of the speakers had some excellent insight into some of these problems facing women and how she was working to solve them.