Tag: women

March 10, 2023

Today, more women are breaking the glass ceiling and entering top leadership roles. While this is an achievement, significant progress is yet to be made. Further deeper barriers to female leadership exist. Real progress and benefits come when companies develop […]

February 28, 2023

These challenges are made no easier by the ever-shifting workplace and consumer landscape of the last few years. The foundations these women-owned small businesses have been built on — persistence, passion, creativity, connection and sheer tenacity — take them far. […]

February 8, 2023

Women are entering the workforce by the dozen due to a multitude of reasons. Whether it’s because they appreciate being more financially independent or they have a real hunger to achieve their career dreams, companies are now having to relook […]

January 31, 2023

A growing number of employers are taking action on pay equity, new research is showing. Many employers have been influenced by the desire to “do the right thing;” others are concerned about mitigating the legal risk of unequal pay, a […]

October 7, 2022

An obvious first step to figuring out what female talent want is simply to ask. Employers often skimp on communicating directly with employees when trying to address their needs, panelists at a 2021 [email protected] virtual summit pointed out. Instead of […]

May 11, 2022

During the company’s first in-person AGM since the start of the pandemic, one investor suggested that Blanc was “not the man for the job”, while another asked whether she should be “wearing trousers”. Blanc joined Aviva in July 2020 as […]

March 21, 2022

During the pandemic, two overlapping groups of employees have been facing great pressure on the job and at home: women and deskless workers. Women, as well as people of color, are over-proportionately represented among the essential workers pressed to keep […]

March 8, 2022

International Women’s Day is a time to celebrate women’s economic, political and social achievements. But despite the gains they’ve experienced over the past several decades, women continue to be plagued by discrimination at work. While both men and women encounter […]

February 18, 2022

America is facing a job problem. It’s not the creation of jobs but filling them – and especially filling jobs in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields. Added to this challenge is the fact that people are leaving the […]

September 8, 2021

As we emerge from the pandemic, many employers are taking stock of how it affected not only their business but their employees as well. For many of us in the diversity, inclusion and equity (DEI) sector, the pandemic shed light […]

September 1, 2021

The National Football League (NFL) recently levied a $10 million fine against the Washington Football Team (WFT) for fostering a workplace culture loaded with sexual harassment, bullying, and intimidation. The fine, imposed at the end of a months-long investigation, is […]

July 28, 2021

Achieving substantial change or progress requires pushing past the superficial and digging deep. As a business leader, this almost certainly comes with facing some difficult, distressing truths. This rings true across all organizations, especially when it comes to fostering diversity […]

July 19, 2021

In recent years, we have seen a revolution in the cybersphere. An increasingly hyperconnected world has opened the doors to more malicious threats from hackers, inside and out. In response, companies of all sizes have begun taking their cyber defenses […]

July 1, 2021

The past year has been universally difficult due to the physical, mental, social and financial impacts of COVID-19. However, some groups have had more challenges than others. Women in the workplace, in particular, have seen many preexisting inequities become worse […]

April 2, 2021

It is a good time to be a software engineer. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that between now and 2029, employment of engineers will grow at a rate five times that of other positions. With that much demand, […]

March 22, 2021

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, it impacted millions of jobs. What was unique about this recession is that its impact was not evenly spread out and some groups — notably, women — took a much bigger hit than others. In […]

March 17, 2021

SHRM has partnered with Security Management Magazine to bring you relevant articles on key workplace topics and strategies. Three years after the #MeToo movement sparked a cultural reckoning around sexual harassment and assault, one-quarter of working Americans—including 29 percent of […]

February 22, 2021

A record number of women have left the workforce since the pandemic began. More than 860,000 women dropped out of the workforce as of September 2020 compared with just over 200,000 men. The current unemployment rate for women has more […]

December 30, 2020

For years, diversity and inclusion (D&I) efforts were nonexistent in most companies. Even after D&I gained more widespread focus, corporate efforts to promote D&I were largely symbolic and vague or focused purely on the numbers—i.e., seeking to fill X% of […]

December 11, 2020

Just because there’s a global pandemic taking place doesn’t mean your diversity efforts should take a back seat. New survey findings released by SurveyMonkey reveal jobseeker sentiments on the candidate experience in the hiring process, and one thing is clear: […]