Monday, May 30, 2016

If There’s Only One Woman in Your Candidate Pool, There’s Statistically No Chance She’ll Be Hired

An excerpt:
There are more CEOs of large U.S. companies who are named David (4.5%) than there are CEOs who are women (4.1%) — and David isn’t even the most common first name among CEOs. (That would be John, at 5.3%.)
Read more in HBR on how bias changes depending on composition of the talent pool. Thanks, +Zuhair Khan 

Why Women Aren’t C.E.O.s, According to Women Who Almost Were

"It’s not a pipeline problem. It’s about loneliness, competition and deeply rooted barriers." Read more in the NYT .