When women keep moving on,
they never have a chance to move up.
Businesses looking to narrow the gender gap often focus on recruitment and hiring. Those are worthy endeavors—as long as the women you already have are sticking around. But most of them aren't.
More than half of women employed in male-dominated industries leave within five years.
3 Reasons Early Career Women Leave
Male-Dominated Workplaces
People most often leave their jobs because they lack certainty - of their value to the business, of their opportunities to advance, and of their place within the team or wider organisation. Early Career Women in male-dominated industries have multiple layers of uncertainty at play.
Gender constructs are amplified in male-majority environments.
And early career women often don't yet have the understanding, skills and confidence to manage them.
Being young and outnumbered can fuel self-doubt.
So women new to the workforce withhold their ideas and stunt their professional progression.
Inexperience can make communication more intimidating.
Which means less engagement, more conflict, and a continued revolving door of talent.
Gender equality is a complex problem
Early Career Women are an untapped part of the solution.
Finally, training and development programs that actually move the needle.
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