The COVID-19 pandemic has had an outsized impact on women in the workplace, making it more challenging for women with caregiving responsibilities to be successful at work, and causing many to voluntarily exit the workforce, said Emily M. Dickens, chief of staff, head of government affairs and corporate secretary for the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM).
In opening remarks at a panel SHRM co-hosted with the North American Human Resource Management Association on International Women’s Day, Dickens stressed the importance of empathy in the workplace, in part because employers with empathetic cultures enjoy higher productivity and retain the best workers.
