2. Tool: Employer Pay Equity Self-Audit
Business and Professional Women/USA, an advocacy organization for working women, adapted this audit from a Department of Labor document to help employers gauge whether they are paying men and women employees equally. The organization notes that discrepancies can lead to costly lawsuits.
3. A 'Broad’s' Guide to Recruiting and Retaining Women
After working at Goldman Sachs for 14 years, Janet Hanson felt isolated and removed from other working women. She founded 85 Broads (a nod to Goldman’s Manhattan address), a network of 17,000 women around the globe, and recently, Broad Impact, a consulting firm. Here are her views on how to find and keep great female employees.
4. Debunking the Myth of Why Women Leave the Workforce
Researcher and author Sylvia Ann Hewlett found that women don’t necessarily want to leave work forever to raise families. Sometimes they don’t want to leave at all. Employers need to find new ways to retain a valuable part of their employee population.
5. Why Women Leave Top Jobs and the Toll of Extreme Jobs
Why Women Leave Top Jobs and the Toll of Extreme Jobs
Women take the career “off ramp” for reasons vastly different from men. Meanwhile, “extreme” jobs which are characterized by long hours and high stress levels, also take a toll on men and women in different ways.
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WHY DO WORKERS EXIT
THE FAST LANE?
Survey data show that
women and men take career "off ramps" for dramatically different
reasons. While men leave the workforce mainly to reposition themselves
for a career change, the largest portion of women leave to attend to
responsibilities at home.
TOP FIVE REASONS
WOMEN LEAVE THE FAST LANE
Family time
44%
Earn a degree, other
training
23
Work not
enjoyable/satisfying
17
Moved away
17
Change careers
16
TOP FIVE REASONS MEN
LEAVE THE FAST LANE
Change careers
29%
Earn a degree, other
training
25
Work not
enjoyable/satisfying
24
Not interested in field
18
Family time
12
Note: totals add up
to more than 100 percent because respondents were allowed to cite
multiple reasons. Source: "Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the
Road to Success," Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Carolyn Buck Luce, Harvard
Business Review, March 2005.
THE TOLL OF EXTREME
JOBS
While many holders of
"extreme" jobs, marked by long hours and high stress, say they like the
challenge and the thrill of their deadline-driven 24/7 careers, they
also say their work interferes with:
Men
Women
Being
able to maintain my home
66%
77%
Having a strong
relationship with my
children
65
33
Having a strong
relationship with my spouse/partner
46
46
Having a satisfying sex
life
49
53
Source: "Big
Picture: Extreme Jobs--the dangerous allure of the 70-Hour Workweek,"
Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Carolyn Buck Luce, Harvard
Business Review, December 2006.
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