Do not offer notional verbal equality to women merely because they add benausic value to your life. They have competitive equal talent value which needs to be recognised and acknowledged. D&I is an empty theory and a long drawn journey if it is to be wrestled out at every stage by assertiveness and legislations . D& I is a meaningful and valuable journey when it is influenced by acknowledgement of spiritual and real-time equality. We invest disproportionate energy to preach to the converted. Our investments to positively influence change in thinking of dominating men , is marginal. This is what voluntary agencies working in this space, seriously need to work on.