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Companies don't pluck candidates out from an unbiased set at random. Companies that are attractive to women get top tier women to apply which means they're able
by shalmanese 8y ago
Companies don't pluck candidates out from an unbiased set at random. Companies that are attractive to women get top tier women to apply which means they're able to select their 50% from the top 5% of women. And guess what, a major factor in a company being attractive to women is a culture where women have a voice roughly equal to men.
Increasing your percentage of women increases your candidate quality, not decreases it, because it forces you to address all the issues that make it challenging for you to attract/retain women in the first place.
- michaelmrose 8y agoSeems like this does not scale in any meaningful way. Got any companies with 50% women in jobs where the applicant pool is 20% with a large population of employees? Hint hiring women in marketing to balance the male software developers wouldn't prove much.
- shalmanese 8y agoWhen I talk to my female engineering friends, Stripe, Slack, Patreon, Pinterest & AirBNB consistently come up as great work cultures for women. They preferentially apply for those companies first over other places because of the work culture.