At the UK’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Rabi initiated and set up working groups to address issues on allyship, women’s health, and women’s safety including sexual harassment. After developing a program of work to engage colleagues, and in particular men in Senior Leadership positions, to better understand gender equality, the Women Empowered Network saw an increase in membership from allies. Rabi was also responsible for launching ‘Allies Hours’, which invites a diverse range of speakers to discuss effective allyship to women and individual actions to promote gender equity, in cross-thematic conversations related to women in business and women in STEM amongst others. In 2020, Rabi had strategic oversight of the network’s first interactive 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence across the department. Rabi champions a safe space for awareness-raising discussions focused on women’s health, aiming to better equip staff to have honest conversations about conditions that predominantly affect women and the impacts in the workplace.
