This Working Life: Resisting change on gender balance isn’t an option
We need a new approach to how we reward our best employees and promote talent
Men will accept a challenge without knowing what it is. Women, by contrast, are more likely to ask questions about the task at hand, and question their ability to do it, before deciding whether they’re up to the challenge.
Most headhunters will tell you this. It’s something most of us have heard at some stage, and, in my view, it’s also a generalisation that is simply not true.
What we really need to address the ...