Hiring Policies to Improve Gender Balance and Overcome Sex-based Biases
Getting a gender-balanced team and overcoming bias need to ultimately be the goals of the majority of all corporate DEI strategies. In reality, this isn’t always the case, as gender diversity is still a real issue in many professional fields.
Unfortunately, in most countries, women, transgender and non-binary persons remain underrepresented. Sex-based bias is a problem that the modern workforce still faces. With so much attention paid to gender equality in recent years, some progress has been seen, but not enough. According to a study of the US by Payscale.com, the “uncontrolled gender pay gap, which takes the ratio of the median earnings of women to men without controlling for various compensable factors, has only decreased by $0.07 since 2015. In 2020, women make only $0.81 for every dollar a man makes.”
So how can companies promote gender equality in hiring and overcome sex-based discrimination?
Our speakers will discuss the following topics:
- How to attract more women to apply for a position at your company
- Techniques to overcome sex-based and gender bias
- How to promote gender equality in the workplace
Michelle Penelope King
Okeyi Ojotule Comfort (Solace)
Chiara Condi
Jennifer Brown
Carina Furlong