The European Commission launched a campaign to convince high school girls to pursue careers in science. Their strategy generated tremendous attention … but not the kind they wanted.
Should universities programs with a sex-skewed group of students use affirmative action to get greater balance in the student population? Is it important to have more male nurses or more female engineers? Here’s one strategy that’s being tried.
Many organizations want to be better workplaces for women and to have more women at all levels. But implementation proves to be difficult and slow. Four factors distinguish companies that succeed in making a breakthrough.
If glass ceilings keep women from moving up, glass walls can keep them from moving to the side. This metaphor describes the harsh realities of coaching college and university sports teams in the United States. A little over 40% of women’s athletics teams are coached by women, while fewer than 1% of men’s teams are coached by women. Read more to learn how to improve these stats…
Affirmative action is often criticized as giving unfair advantages. Different people are evaluated by different criteria, which inevitably lowers the quality of the selected group, is the claim.
The logic behind these claims is not hard to understand, but it may be wrong. For more of the truth about affirmative action…