Why more than one woman is needed in a candidate pool to level the playing field
A study by University of Colorado finds that having just one woman in a candidate pool means a near-zero statistical chance that she’ll be hired.
Gender Equality
Women in Wind at EU Sustainability Week 2019
GWEC took part in a panel session on gender equality in the clean energy transition on 19 June 2019, as part of a panel organized for EU Sustainability Week.
Women in Wind participant Mercia Grimbeek on the strengths of women in the workplace
Mercia Grimbeek, one of the participants of the Women in Wind Global Leadership Program spoke to South Africa’s Financial Mail about female leadership.
More action needed on global gender equality by 2030
The 2019 SDG Gender Index, tracking gender equality across 129 countries, finds that nearly 40 per cent of the world’s girls and women – 1.4 billion people – live in countries failing on gender equality.
Women are more collaborative – does that mean they carry a heavier load in the workplace?
A study published by Harvard Business Review last year shows that women in the workplace disproportionately carry the burden of being agents of collaboration.
New State of the Workforce report by ADP crystallizes the “leaky pipeline” problem
On 16 April 2019, the ADP Research Institute released its 2019 State of the Workforce Report: Pay, Promotions and Retention. The report includes aggregated and anonymized HR and payroll data of more than 13 million workers in the US. The insights are dismaying, although not altogether surprising.
