Advancing Women in Technology Leadership (webinar)
- Claude Werder
- Learning and Development, Human Resources
Almost all organizations have women working in technical roles, however a daunting 70% of them have women employed in less than one-quarter of their technical jobs, according to Brandon Hall Group’s 2018 Women in Technology Leadership Study.
The research was done in partnership with Blue Circle Leadership and its founder, Bonnie St. John.
Diversity training and establishing diversity targets are the most frequently used strategies to advance women in technology. However, they rank low in perceived effectiveness. Job sharing, and support and mentorship programs aimed exclusively at grooming women tech leaders, are considered the most effective strategies, although they are used about half as often as diversity programs.
In this session, Rachel Cooke, COO at Brandon Hall Group, and Bonnie St. John, CEO at Blue Circle Leadership, dive deeper into this and other key findings such as:
• Organizations with collaborative cultures, which highly value inclusion, teamwork and consensus, were twice as likely as other corporate cultures to rate their strategies to advance women in technology leadership as effective.
• Only 12% of organizations are utilizing any type of technology that removes or reduces gender signals in candidate resumes.
• 43% of women said they had experienced (non-sexual) bullying in the workplace by the opposite sex, and 29% said they had experienced bullying by other women. 41% of women said they had been sexually harassed or inappropriately touched by the opposite sex.
Don't Want to Miss Valuable Info?
Purchase a Membership and get access to the 100% of our Resource Center and all the downloadable materials.
