Do you want to achieve diversity, inclusion, and equity in 2023? Embrace impossible goals

Patricia Gestoso
6 min readJan 1, 2023

What if Mahatma Gandhi, Emmeline Pankhurst, Nelson Mandela or Florence Nightingale had set for SMART goals?

Message pinned with three pushpins to a whiteboard that reads “Nothing is impossible only improbable”.
Image by Davie Bicker from Pixabay.

Happy New Year 2023! I wish this year brings you professional and personal success.

This post is inspired by a great conversation I had with my lovely mother-in-law this morning. She’s a fantastic woman that — as myself — is ambitious. Unlike myself, she didn’t have the support of her parents to attend university or to do any other kind of studies after secondary school. But her brother did have that opportunity. The reason? He’s a man, she’s a woman.

The same happened to my grandmother, an extremely brilliant woman. Her only brother was sent to pursue further studies after he finished school. Neither my grandmother nor any of her 3 sisters were given that opportunity.

Until this point, hopefully, none of this surprises you no matter where you live in the world.

So what made that conversation relevant? My mother-in-law told me that believes that things will continue to improve steadily for women in the next years and that they cannot be speeded up.

When I reiterated that I don’t want things to improve “steadily” for women and people of underrepresented groups

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Patricia Gestoso

Fresh thinking about inclusion, tech, AI, professional success & systemic change through a feminist lens. Visit patriciagestoso.com