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With this point you are entering some sharp edged territory. Let's say you have a team that is majority women, and you have 2 candidates for promotion: a man a
by partycoder 9y ago
With this point you are entering some sharp edged territory.
Let's say you have a team that is majority women, and you have 2 candidates for promotion: a man and a woman. The EEO law says sex should not be a criteria for promotion.
However if you promote the women based on sex (e.g: following your idea that women work better with women mentors) this could be considered an EEO violation (sex discrimination).
So if you want to abide by the law, you need a promotion criteria that's better than "women work better with women".
- wolco 9y agoYou pick the best for the role regardless or the business with suffer. Not sure why women needing a mentor to learn would alter that. The sharp edge raises the question are women more valuable or less than men? Does this change the value. On one hand men don't need mentors to succeed that provides more value. On the other hand women who can act as mentors to other women are more valuable than men. In the end it doesn't matter to the business because both cases provide value in different ways. But it could make a big difference to the individual. Treat everyone differently because everyone has different needs and they learn in different ways.