Sentences with phrase «of hiring women»

Between the clear (data - proven) benefits of hiring women, that women are outperforming men in school, and the fact that most recruiters are women (who want to support other women), it makes 100 % sense why women might be getting a boost when they apply for jobs.

The prospect of hiring women faculty first arose in 1913, but the school's leadership decided that it would be «improper» to have female physicians instructing male medical students.

The oil industry is doing a better job of hiring women.

Another male director, referring to board nominations on several technology companies, responded that «Not a single time was there a mention of hiring a woman — it was never brought up.

Not exact matches

Srinivasan continued, pointing out that, «Seventy - four percent of all women who joined our firm during that period, and 80 percent of our new female sales hires, said that Lever blog posts had influenced their decision to either apply or accept their offer.»

Kim Churches, CEO of American Association of University Women, says the hiring practices of many organizations have a lot to do with the issues we see in the workplace.

Instead, women who have high «job authority» — the ability to hire and fire others, and to influence others» pay — show more signs of depression than women without such authority.

When the study sent out blind résumés (résumés with no indication of gender), fewer women were hired than when names (which generally indicate gender) were included.

The «pipeline problem» is the theory there simply aren't enough properly skilled members of underrepresented groups for hire — including women, people of color, veterans and members of the LGBTQ community.

Retention of diverse employees is also a focus for Saujani, who noted that while tech companies like SpaceX now have more gender balance among interns and young hires, they do a poor job maintaining it: 30 - 40 % of women leave quickly.

And a quarter of Fast 50 companies reported that 21 - 30 % of all new hires were women (52 % of Diply's staff are women), compared to just 13 % of hires reported in the 2016 survey.

Once I hired a guy, and I remember him saying to Leslie Short, who was then my head of PR, that he would never answer to a woman.

Though AlSyead says reaching Olayan's 1,000 - woman goal in 2016 is statistically impossible, she touts the company's milestones: It has hired the first - ever female worker in the Saudi city of Yanbu, for example.

Of the company's senior leadership hires over the past 12 months, 9 percent were black, 5 percent Hispanic, and 29 percent were women.

When Olayan first sought to integrate OFC in 2001, there was no playbook for a company like hers to hire women — and plenty of obstacles to doing so, since labor law and social customs left a lot of room for interpretation and confusion.

Asadullah Sherazee, the general manager of OFC's Coca - Cola Bottling Co. (COKE) of Saudi Arabia, recalls that when Olayan approached him about hiring female employees — «Coke says the workforce should be 40 % women.

The trend is probably going to persist going forward, the economists suggest, especially as younger groups of women have become more educated — affording them the affluence to work more and spend time with their families while hiring someone else to do the dusting.

To simulate a real - life hiring scenario, Kent University researchers asked participants (61 men, 39 women) to rate the profiles of four potential applicants, all around the same age, for a managerial position.

She has reorganized 80 percent of top management with a slew of hires; redirected the product teams to put as much weight on fashion and comfort as on function, and fomented what she called a «consumer - centric» company culture,» reports Women's Wear Daily.

It's been more than two years since Facebook and others in tech committed to hiring more women and underrepresented people of color, and so far, there is very little to show for it.

The Firm has been a diversity pioneer in its industry and was one of the first venture capital firms to hire women as partners.

Most of them were disadvantaged women whom OFC hired to sew surgical gowns at Enayah (its joint venture with Kimberly - Clark (KMB) and another Saudi firm).

According to research published last year in Psychology of Women Quarterly, people making hiring decisions — even those who profess to believe in gender equality — overwhelmingly associate qualified female candidates with diminished competence.

This suggests that a vast majority of men believe that the diversity problem is caused by not bringing enough women to the table - and it follows logically then that simply hiring more women would solve the problem.

When women founders are asked the same question, however, 29 % attribute the disparity to unconscious bias in hiring and promotions, with another 23 % blaming the lack of role models.

«A confluence of industry events has brought [the lack of women and minorities in technology] to the center stage, from the threats and harassment that have characterized the debate in the gaming world to the publication of hiring data and diversity statistics in the tech industry,» Intel CEO Brian Krzanich told the audience during his keynote address at CES.

The best efforts of companies to hire and promote women may simply not be enough to achieve true gender parity.

Greene said that «one of the most thrilling things» about the new hires is that both of them are women.

Moritz, a former Time magazine journalist, went on to lament the lower numbers of women studying math and sciences as the reason why it's so difficult for the firm to hire more women — a popular excuse often used by the tech companies with low diversity numbers.

Hired's research found that women with zero - to - two years of experience who took new jobs actually asked for 2 percent more compensation than men — and received 7 percent more.

«It's difficult to determine whether this is a symptom of unconscious gender bias in the hiring process or results from an ongoing cycle of women being underpaid, setting their salary expectations too low, and ultimately receiving less in subsequent roles,» the report reads.

Instead of surrounding themselves with an entourage of «yes men» or «yes women,» leaders could hire someone to keep their egos in check.

If these women were in positions of leadership to begin with, the crises that spurred their hiring may not have even happened in the first place.

It celebrates meritocracy and deplores credentialism, but when it comes to hiring a woman or person of color for a technical role, Silicon Valley erects fences to ensure they don't» lower the bar.»

Meanwhile, Uber will have to walk carefully as it tries to hire more women, who currently make up about 22 % of the company's leadership.

When you hire an ad agency, chances are your campaigns will originate from a male sensibility since only 3 percent of creative directors are women.

For example, a hiring manager might assume a qualified woman with young kids wouldn't want a role requiring a lot of travel.

According to an evaluation by Hired, female candidates in the field are offered an average of four percent less than their male counterparts, and «63 percent of the time women receive lower salary offers than men for the same job at the same company.»

Sandberg said more business owners and leaders need to be aware of that bias and should focus on hiring more women in leadership roles.

Done right, diverse slate hiring policies — which require at least one woman or person of colour to be among the candidates considered for a job — remove the easy excuses that cheat the under - represented out of a shot at key roles.

Economists treat parental leave, both for women and men, as a simple cost - benefit problem: in theory, at least, if a woman's wage is greater than the cost of replacing her in the home, then she should spend her time working and hire someone else to care for her children.

One of the women who helped develop the Facebook «like» button, for instance, «has installed a web browser plug - in to eradicate her Facebook news feed, and hired a social media manager to monitor her Facebook page so that she doesn't have to.»

To that end, Apple has committed to hiring more women and minorities and, according to the company's website, 50 percent of its new hires from July 2016 to July 2017 were from historically underrepresented groups.

«Under Rupert's leadership and with his total support, the company exited Roger Ailes, compensated numerous women who were mistreated; trained virtually all of its employees; exited its biggest star; and hired a new head of HR,» the spokesperson said.

However, the company responded to comments to that effect on its Facebook page, writing, «Audi has diverse hiring practices to ensure equality across our staff and we pledge to put aggressive hiring and development strategies in place to increase the number of women in our workforce, at all levels.»

Ironically, accomplished women executives would be exactly the type of hires that could help a startup clean up its reputation, according to Heathfield.

Here, the agency hired criminal sketch artist Gil Zamora to draw a handful of women both as they described themselves and how a stranger described them.

In the earlier part of Thornley's comments — the part that no one seems to have upset exactly no one — he says he can hire women with «less competition.»

Evan Thornley, founder of online advertising startup LookSmart, got himself into trouble when he said that he hired women because they were «relatively cheap» compared to men.

Critics of recent changes at the CBC dismiss Lang as another «money honey,» a good - looking woman hired to sex up the staid world of business news.