The following post is submitted by Joyce Maroney, Executive Director of the Workforce Institute at Kronos.
I recently discussed the thorny issues of workplace gender equity with my colleague and Workforce Institute board member Natalie Bickford. Natalie is the Group Human Resources Director at Merlin Entertainments PLC and she has more than 20 years of HR experience, with companies like Barclays, Kingfisher, AstraZeneca, and Sodexo. Natalie is also a thought leader in diversity and inclusion and has won several awards for her contributions to gender diversity in the UK, including recognition as a diversity champion by the Employers Network for Equality & Inclusion, and the Working Mums Champion Award in 2012. She was also the chair of Women 1st, an organization that promotes the role of women within the industry. In addition to all this, Natalie was recently recognized as one of the most influential HR practitioners in the UK.
While over a century has passed since the beginning of the women's suffrage movement, we still have a way to go to achieve true equity in the workplace. Statistics abound regarding the stubbornly persistent pay gaps between men and women. The rise of the #MeToo movement makes it clear that beyond pay, women continue to be confronted by harassment in the workplace based on their gender. With this in mind, I recorded a podcast interview with Natalie to address these and other questions:
You can listen to our conversation here:
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