There are initiatives to encourage women to enter STEM fields. Organizations have programs to recruit women. Then what happens? “Across all areas,” asks Claire Flannery, “How are we getting on with keeping and engaging the females we already have and stopping…
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Empathy In the C-Suite Is Good For Business
As we start to close out another year, we’ve seen several workplace gender issues become more mainstream in conversations about business practices. Whether it be the lack of diversity at the top, a gender pay gap or the #MeToo movement,…
Diversity is More Than Just the Kind You Can See
Diversity of opinion, outlook and background in the workplace is hugely beneficial for teams and organizations. And yet, despite their best efforts, hiring managers are unconsciously inclined to hire people similar to themselves. Whilst this is a natural human tendency,…
The Gender Pay Gap Is Also an Opportunity Gap
The current business climate has created a new focus, and even spurred new laws aimed at achieving equal pay, but not enough progress has been made. PayScale’s new research found that the gender pay gap still persists into 2018. Looking…
HR 101: Simple Steps HR Can Take to Promote Inclusion
It should be pretty obvious to anyone reading the news that many women and minorities don’t feel fully comfortable at work. From Hollywood to Silicon Valley and from factory floors to government halls, too many women and minorities feel they…
Better Reference Checking Is A Step To Ending Bad Behavior
From Uber’s media firestorm earlier this year which highlighted its lack of female employees and failure to address complaints of sexism to the recent memo from a Google engineer saying that women were more focused on “feelings and aesthetics than…
Lessons from SAP’s Journey: Three Actionable Ways to Increase Women in Management
Organizations continue to struggle to create gender equality in the workplace, especially those in the technology industry. According to research from LeanIn.Org and McKinsey & Co., for every 100 U.S. women promoted to manager, 130 men are promoted – leaving far fewer…