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Quick bit of research for a daunting interview 11:40 - May 13 with 2713 viewsgreyhound

Going through a major work change right now and have an interview next week.

Presentation on levelling up gender equality is required. As a primarily male audience I would like to run some rapid honest research with you all to include in a presentation. I would like to compare perceived industry opinion versus public opinion and highlight softer less data driven nuances in the topic.

Simply answer the following question and then enter which gender you identify as below where happy to do so.

Why is gender balance important in the workplace in your opinion?

Huge thanks in advance to anyone that provides any level of opinion. Rather daunting to me right now.
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Is the answer..... on 12:07 - May 13 with 2398 viewsBloots

...."because having a few decent looking birds around the office cheers all the blokes up"?

Actually, maybe not.

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Is the answer..... on 12:10 - May 13 with 2391 viewsKeno

Is the answer..... on 12:07 - May 13 by Bloots

...."because having a few decent looking birds around the office cheers all the blokes up"?

Actually, maybe not.


I was thinking you'd start the presentation with something like 'nice to be there and before I start **pause and look at interviewers, settle gaze on a young lady' we may be a thirsty so hey love can you go get us some teas'

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Quick bit of research for a daunting interview on 12:13 - May 13 with 2370 viewsKungfuBlue

Working in technology sales gender really doesnt have a bearing on ability to perfom role therefore I'd say I dont think you should deliberately set out to hire one gender over another, it should all be about most capable to do the role irrespective of male, female etc..
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Quick bit of research for a daunting interview on 12:20 - May 13 with 2354 viewsWD19

Have seen your DM. Will aim to get back to you later this evening.
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Quick bit of research for a daunting interview on 12:22 - May 13 with 2343 viewsborge

It isn't - I say that as a man who employs 22 people, 21 of whom are women.

It doesn't matter to me that I don't have more men employed, what matters to me is that I have the right people for the right jobs. It just so happens that my industry is dominated by women (and no, I don't own strip clubs) so finding men with the right skills is quite hard.

Would I like to employ more men? Other than not having much in the way of football bants (only one of my team likes football), no, not really.

You could argue that having a good balance would bring different perspectives and greater diversity into my companies, but for me it comes down to skills and ability to do the job.

This probably helps you very little because no doubt the question has been posed from the opposite angle (i.e. ensuring sufficient female representation).
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Quick bit of research for a daunting interview on 12:22 - May 13 with 2342 viewsKropotkin123

I want to work alongside the best and most deserving candidates, whatever their gender.

I believe in equality.

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Quick bit of research for a daunting interview on 12:29 - May 13 with 2328 viewsSarge

Gender equality/balance is important because without it, no country or organisation can be considered civilised, modern, or in any way respectable.

It is fundamentally wrong to pay people differently for doing the same job because of their gender. It is fundamentally wrong to limit opportunities for a certain gender when it has absolutely no impact on their ability to do the job. We are supposed to live in meritocracy.

Some industries attract vastly more men than women, some more women than men and that's absolutely fine if it reflects the wishes of the applicants. I'm all for encouraging women into tech for instance as we do in our industry, but only if they actually want to pursue it, it should not be forced on them.

Gender inequality exists and needs to be stamped out by taking gender out of salary, ensuring no barriers to opportunities for anybody, regardless of gender and normalising the idea of having a different gender in primarily male or female dominated fields to take some of the toxic behaviours out of the workplace. The solution (to me) is not to strive for a 50/50 balance in the board room for example, or to have a quota on the numbers of men and women because all this is saying is "You're here because you're a man/woman and we need the numbers". It's demeaning and brings the focus back to gender and not ability.
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Quick bit of research for a daunting interview on 12:35 - May 13 with 2312 viewsYou_Bloo_Right

Quick bit of research for a daunting interview on 12:29 - May 13 by Sarge

Gender equality/balance is important because without it, no country or organisation can be considered civilised, modern, or in any way respectable.

It is fundamentally wrong to pay people differently for doing the same job because of their gender. It is fundamentally wrong to limit opportunities for a certain gender when it has absolutely no impact on their ability to do the job. We are supposed to live in meritocracy.

Some industries attract vastly more men than women, some more women than men and that's absolutely fine if it reflects the wishes of the applicants. I'm all for encouraging women into tech for instance as we do in our industry, but only if they actually want to pursue it, it should not be forced on them.

Gender inequality exists and needs to be stamped out by taking gender out of salary, ensuring no barriers to opportunities for anybody, regardless of gender and normalising the idea of having a different gender in primarily male or female dominated fields to take some of the toxic behaviours out of the workplace. The solution (to me) is not to strive for a 50/50 balance in the board room for example, or to have a quota on the numbers of men and women because all this is saying is "You're here because you're a man/woman and we need the numbers". It's demeaning and brings the focus back to gender and not ability.


This ...

"Gender inequality exists and needs to be stamped out by taking gender out of salary, ensuring no barriers to opportunities for anybody, regardless of gender, and normalising the idea of having a different gender in primarily male or female dominated fields to take some of the toxic behaviours out of the workplace. The solution (to me) is not to strive for a 50/50 balance in the board room for example, or to have a quota on the numbers of men and women because all this is saying is "You're here because you're a man/woman and we need the numbers". It's demeaning and brings the focus back to gender and not ability."

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Quick bit of research for a daunting interview on 13:02 - May 13 with 2247 viewsjeera

Quick bit of research for a daunting interview on 12:35 - May 13 by You_Bloo_Right

This ...

"Gender inequality exists and needs to be stamped out by taking gender out of salary, ensuring no barriers to opportunities for anybody, regardless of gender, and normalising the idea of having a different gender in primarily male or female dominated fields to take some of the toxic behaviours out of the workplace. The solution (to me) is not to strive for a 50/50 balance in the board room for example, or to have a quota on the numbers of men and women because all this is saying is "You're here because you're a man/woman and we need the numbers". It's demeaning and brings the focus back to gender and not ability."


" The solution (to me) is not to strive for a 50/50 balance in the board room for example, or to have a quota on the numbers of men and women because all this is saying is "You're here because you're a man/woman and we need the numbers". It's demeaning and brings the focus back to gender and not ability."

But that's not how it works.

No company is expected to recruit across a spectrum for the sake of keeping up quotas.

The concept is straightforward enough. If there enough candidates for a role who are equally qualified then it is expected to see a fair representation across the board.

That's it. There is no requirement to recruit off the back of sex/gender alone, only to ensure that there is fair representation of those who are capable.
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Quick bit of research for a daunting interview on 13:08 - May 13 with 2228 viewsEddyJ

Assuming there are no major inherent differences between genders' ability to perform a given role, and that applicants are evenly split across genders, one must assume that the best candidates will be equally split across genders.

By only hiring one gender, you are limiting yourself to only 50% of the best candidates.
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Quick bit of research for a daunting interview on 13:11 - May 13 with 2215 viewsgreyhound

In the most part really really helpful so far. To give context without revealing th problem statement, this refers to senior management and executive representation. There's some great points on here.
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Quick bit of research for a daunting interview on 13:20 - May 13 with 2186 viewsRadlett_blue

I believe questioning potential employees about their attitudes to diversity & gender equality is now part of the recruitment process for many firms.
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Quick bit of research for a daunting interview on 13:24 - May 13 with 2182 viewsParsley

Diversity in the workplace is important because people with different backgrounds and experiences can offer different perspectives and can provide increased creativity leading to greater innovation, better problem solving and decision making. Building a positive workplace culture is important for productivity and may help attract/retain the best candidates for roles in the future. There are a number of ways to achieve this range of diversity whether it's age, race, religion etc. Personally I think all aspects of diversity are important and gender is one of these.
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Quick bit of research for a daunting interview on 13:40 - May 13 with 2151 viewsRyorry

In addition to all the (mostly excellent) answers above, I'd add simply "why not have 100% instead of just 50% of the population to pick from & encourage to achieve the best for this company that can be achieved?"

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Quick bit of research for a daunting interview on 13:47 - May 13 with 2127 viewsSuperblue95

The women in my office generally aren’t any more incompetent than most of the men are. Let them all be thickos together I say.

Also the more women there is versus men in the office, the less likely the men’s bathroom will be occupied when it’s time for my morning dump

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Quick bit of research for a daunting interview on 14:06 - May 13 with 2097 viewseireblue

Hmmm, not sure how you get this into your presentation.

But I decided to leave a company in the middle of a meeting of about 20 people.
All white middle class males. Dull as f**k.
During a coffee break I remember calling my wife, and told her I needed to resign, and was struggling with a good reason not to do it immediately.

I knew and liked some people in that meeting, but jeez, as a group it was dull. BTW I would class my self as a member of that group, obvs one of the more youthful good looking ones.

In terms of your update about management. If everyone more senior than you is of a certain type and you are not part of that type, it must be a concern. Talented people may look elsewhere.
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Quick bit of research for a daunting interview on 14:11 - May 13 with 2080 viewsBlueandTruesince82

Because women challenge people in the office in diffrent ways to men so. Each gender (broadly not exclusively) probabaly sees differnt problems and would have differnt approaches to those so by having a more diverse work force you get broader insight, attention drawn to more things differnt suggestions as to how to overcome these.


This can be then be extrapolated to further by increasing diversity further through race, sexuality etc

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Quick bit of research for a daunting interview on 14:14 - May 13 with 2076 viewsSaleAway

Male - working in Software industry.

You've got a few issues to consider.

1. What do you mean by gender equality? Representation equality? Pay equality? Opportunity equality?

2. Each of these has different approaches needed. For example - there aren't a lot of female software engineers.... no matter what internal policies a corporation puts together, if there isn't the workforce available, they can't employ them.... so it comes down to looking at how to work with governments and education institutions to break down the gender based entry barriers ( Vodafone I think did some work with creating engineering courses designed specifically for teenage girls to try and address this)

3. Pay equality: this is really hard, because pay is often negotiated, and what allows companies to differentiate. Formalising pay bands and metrics can help avoid gender bias when it comes to internal pay reviews though.

4. Equality of opportunity: ensuring that diverse ranges of people feel able to apply for all roles is again tricky, but again, having proactive management ( look for the right person, not just the loudest) identifying promotion candidates, having formalised review/achievement processes that remove gender bias where possible will help.

That's just my view - hope it helps.

edit: didn't read the original question properly - got into solutions rather than why its important. I think my first point is still relevant though - what do they mean by gender balance...
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Quick bit of research for a daunting interview on 14:36 - May 13 with 2020 viewsClapham_Junction

In addition to the comments above about bringing a different perspective, I think there are also things dependent on what type of work is being done.

For jobs working with vulnerable people, there are some clients who would rather deal with staff from the same gender, so having staff primarily from one gender would be a limitation.

Also, if you're dealing with a specialism that historically has been dominated by one gender, it can be important to have a gender balance as it opens up the specialism and hopefully stops kids thinking that it's not a career for them.
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Quick bit of research for a daunting interview on 12:36 - May 14 with 1851 viewsgreyhound

Just a quick thank you to all who contributed. Now to get this crafted and a questions sorted by Tuesday.
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Quick bit of research for a daunting interview on 12:50 - May 14 with 1812 viewsPinewoodblue

Define gender equality.

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Quick bit of research for a daunting interview on 23:28 - May 21 with 1596 viewsgreyhound

Just an update, I got the job, credited research from here was given as a reason towards looking at wider population opinion.

Without being all gushy its a dream job and the part you played has really helped.
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Quick bit of research for a daunting interview on 23:34 - May 21 with 1586 viewsDropCliffsNotBombs

Quick bit of research for a daunting interview on 23:28 - May 21 by greyhound

Just an update, I got the job, credited research from here was given as a reason towards looking at wider population opinion.

Without being all gushy its a dream job and the part you played has really helped.


That's awesome, congratulations
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Quick bit of research for a daunting interview on 08:35 - May 22 with 1464 viewsWD19

Quick bit of research for a daunting interview on 23:28 - May 21 by greyhound

Just an update, I got the job, credited research from here was given as a reason towards looking at wider population opinion.

Without being all gushy its a dream job and the part you played has really helped.


That is absolutely fabulous news. That has made my week.
Very, very well done and good luck in your new role.
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Quick bit of research for a daunting interview on 10:44 - May 22 with 1358 viewsgreyhound

Quick bit of research for a daunting interview on 08:35 - May 22 by WD19

That is absolutely fabulous news. That has made my week.
Very, very well done and good luck in your new role.


Thanks for your pm's on the subject I have a lot of people on here to thank for some key bits of information that furthered my research lines and you really helped that along.
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