Podcast
Women on Top: Diversity, Inclusion, Pipeline Leak & More
Mar, 2020
It’s that month of the year when we reserve a day to celebrate women. At UpsideLMS we are taking it a step ahead and celebrating all of March as Women’s Month. In this women power podcast, we discuss Diversity & Inclusion (D&I), pipeline leak, gender stereotyping, women leadership, returnship & more from the perspective of L&D and training.
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Show Notes:
Imposter syndrome. Sexism. Maternity leave. The glass ceiling. Low representation at the table. Gender bias. These are just a few of the challenges that disproportionately affect women and perpetuate the leaky pipeline metaphor.
Women held 50.04% of American jobs as of December 2019. While that’s an improvement by 49.7% over the previous year, a lot needs to be done in the areas of Diversity and Inclusion, women leadership and women-centric training programs. Sample this - Men continue to dominate senior leadership positions at corporate organizations with just 5% of Fortune 500 companies being led by women. 16 percent of women report having no access to a workplace L&D program versus just 4% of males.
Listen to the full episode to learn:
- What can businesses, L&D in particular, do to crack the code for Diversity and Inclusion through training interventions
- How can L&D address returnship
- Importance of soft skills and hard skills for the workplace of today and tomorrow
- Importance of holistic, broad-based training interventions that sensitizes and encourages men to have a better buy-in to D&I