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Motivating the front line is only one part of a more holistic solution that should also include:
Think fresh
leadership
Courageous
thinking
Bold
execution
Uncompromising
Confronting blind spots to
shift the dialogue and change
the corporate culture
Flexibility in every role,
pay-equity transparency, and
résumé-screening analytics
Fair “first promotion”
experiences, more holistic
family-leave programs,
and improved sponsorship
Article - McKinsey Quarterly
Time for a new
gender-equality playbook
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How do you encourage men on the
front line to embrace gender diversity?
By providing training, measurement,
and rewards.
Motivate
But only 31% of men
report that their manager
has provided guidance on how
to improve gender diversity
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Women in the workplace 2017
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How do you motivate frontline managers to embrace gender diversity? The old-fashioned
way: you pay them.
Coin
operated
I thought was not possible.”
this, the organization moved in a way that
then we tied them to incentives. When we did
a real stretch, almost unreasonable ... And
we introduced diversity targets that were
gender diversity at all levels of the company ...
“To achieve a material improvement in
Elmer Funke Kupper,
former CEO ASX
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Championing gender equality in Australia
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So why does the gender inequality persist? Employees point, in part, to the plant managers, regional sales leaders, store managers, team coaches, and general managers who make companies tick.
The frontline
problem
Women
Men
%
7
%
12
Few employees see frontline managers
rewarded for progress on gender diversity
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Women in the workplace 2016
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The higher you look in companies, the fewer women you see, even though on average women and men leave their organizations at about the same rate. At technology companies, for example, women fill fewer than 1 in 5 senior roles.
Leaky pipes
C-suite
Senior vice
president
Vice
president
Senior
manager/
director
Manager
22
79
21
79
29
72
34
67
37
63
48
52
Men
Women
Entry-level
professional
The corporate-talent pipeline in 2017, % of employees by level
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Women in the workplace 2017
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More than 75% of CEOs have made gender
diversity a top priority in their companies.
So why do men still get paid more, and promoted more often, than women?
The front lines of gender inequality
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