EHRC updates guidance on discriminatory adverts

Britain’s equality watchdog, the Equality and Human Rights Commission, has updated its guidance for publishing job advertisements providing greater clarity around “occupational requirements”. The EHRC first published its guidance on discriminatory adverts... Read more »

Women make up most graduates joining counter-terrorism roles

Women made up the majority of trainees recruited into counter-terrorism policing via a new graduate scheme. Sixty per cent of trainee detectives recruited into the counter-terrorism stream after completing Police Now’s National... Read more »

Female academics take 15 more years to reach full professorship

It takes women almost 15 years longer than men to progress to a full professorship at a top university, according to a new analysis. Researchers looked at data from the Higher Education... Read more »

Which Employees Receive the Lowest-Quality Feedback

​Women and employees of color receive the lowest-quality feedback from their managers during performance reviews and are leaving their organizations at the highest rates, according to a recent analysis of 13,000 performance... Read more »

More Mothers of Small Children Are Working Than Ever Before

​The number of working women with small children is at an all-time high in the U.S., according to a recent analysis of federal data by the Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution.... Read more »

EEOC Sues Nevada Restaurant Operators for Sexual Misconduct, Highlighting Harassment in US Workplaces

​Sexual harassment claims against three separate restaurant groups in Nevada are among the most recent to be filed this year. High-profile claims also have been made against the president of a large... Read more »

Do Your Employees Know How to Report Misconduct?

​Workplace harassment happens in many U.S. workplaces, but most employees who witness or experience such misconduct do not report it to HR, according to a new report by software company HR Acuity,... Read more »

Resumes with They/Them Pronouns More Likely to Be Ignored

Job applicants who include gender-neutral pronouns on their resumes are less likely to be contacted by employers, according to a recent study by Business.com. In the report, researchers submitted two phantom resumes... Read more »

How to Help Change the Narrative for Women at Work

​SHRM has partnered with Security Management Magazine to bring you relevant articles on key workplace topics and strategies. Women leaders are just as ambitious as men, but they continue to face strong headwinds that... Read more »

What Women Want from the Workplace

?Women left the workforce in droves during the COVID-19 pandemic. While federal data shows that employment and labor force participation among women have returned to pre-pandemic levels, women have continued to quit... Read more »