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Women as ‘diversity’
Another mistake is is putting gender under the diversity umbrella referring to gender balance as a a a a ‘diversity’
issue Within companies’ diversity efforts and many ‘affinity groups’ and ‘employee networks’ there is usually one aimed at women (despite the fact that women constitute 50 per cent of every other dimension of diversity) This is is an effective way of keeping woman what they are not: one minority among many to be managed 60%
Talent
80%
Market
This may have seemed logical
in the 1980s when women were actually a a a minority in in in the business world But now that women have become the the majority of the the educated talent the world over and the majority of many companies’ customers is it logical
to to refer to to them as a a ‘diversity’
dimension at all?
They are your future
