Trickle-down & Bottom-up Effects on Workplace Gender Diversity - New research suggests that understanding intervention

Lawrence National Centre for Policy and Management Page 3 Women in the Workplace In the last 20 years, there has been a significant increase in women’s participation in the workforce, with women entering full-time employment at higher rates than men. [...] In these industries, having women managers at MMT Having more women in the TMT was positively for coaching and mentoring is strongly associated with associated with an increase in women’s presence at an increase in the number of non-management female the MMT level, but only in female-tilted and gender- employees. [...] In those industries, the presence theory: When women consider working in industries of women in TMT increased the representation of traditionally skewed heavily toward a male workforce, women in MMT, potentially due to the actions of the presence of a company that has female middle women in leadership roles to actively increase managers sends a strong signal that the firm is management roles and r. [...] It is likely that the trickle-down effect from TMT to Because in male- other levels will be stronger once the organizational strategies and tilted industries more structures are in place to support the recruitment of women across the hierarchy. [...] In shattering the glass particular, the brief identifies three areas of policy development: Hiring more women within MMT, ceiling is not something encouraging the internal promotion of women from MMT to TMT, and identifying the role of governments only women have to to disseminate best practices and drive action for work toward, it is a greater impact.