In the 1940s, World War II pulled 6 million women into the U.S. labor force. In 2019, women are once again diving into male-dominated blue-collar jobs like construction, transportation, warehouse work and protective services.
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Most diversity training is based on the theory that the gender gap is largely due to the damaging nature of stereotypes. For example, because of a likability penalty, we’re told, women are promoted less often and grow less interested in senior roles.
Deloitte and The Female Quotient (The FQ), a company dedicated to advancing equality, today announced a strategic alliance dedicated to advancing inclusion in the workplace.
Twomentor, a training and development company, today announced it is partnering with WITI (Women in Technology International) to offer innovative and sustainable programs to WITI’s corporate members.
Women can only do so much to promote themselves; organizations need to step up to the plate to begin eliminating deeply ingrained biases and stereotypes about ambitious women. Here are a few metaphorical tools your organization can use to lead a change.
In technology fields, finding enough qualified women to hire and promote is a challenge that the best companies are committed to resolving. Overcoming this challenge starts long before girls choose their college major.
The Mom Project, the leading career marketplace for women, launched the national expansion of its Women's Work Initiative today. The program will connect 1,000 talented women with leading employers.
We know there’s a gender gap in leadership and that the gap impacts everything from employee engagement to a company’s financial results. Recent research indicates that there is also a gender gap in workplace safety – which has more immediate...
If you have a program for women professionals in your organization, it’s worthwhile to check if such learning is resulting in more women rising to leadership positions or, at the least, more of them vying for leadership positions.
The gender leadership gap is well established and well known. However, it differs across industries. In health care, women represent 65 percent of the overall workforce but only 30 percent of the C-suite and 13 percent of CEO roles.