“I’ve had female hiring managers at previous jobs tell me they didn’t want to hire women of a certain age because they might get pregnant…”
Almost one in three women in the tech industry have been told that they only got the job because they are a woman. That’s according to a survey by UK-based jobs recruiter CWjobs, which also found that one in five women believe they have been overlooked for promotion because of their gender.to CWJobs: “I’ve had occasions when male members of my team have tried to guess if it’s ‘that time of the month’.
When explaining a specialist work-related issue her male colleague didn’t accept her solution and she says that: “I remember thinking ‘Is this because I’m a woman, or does he think I don’t know what I am talking about?’, because, let’s be honest, we don’t want to think that people we encounter are sexist.”
The review captured the views of 23,000 leaders in 350 of the UK’s largest companies. Women holding positions on boards of top 100 FTSE companies has been slow to rise, gaining less than 1% as female representation in the boardroom rose from 26.6% in 2016 to 27.7% last year. The FTSE 100 set a target last year to reach a level of over a third female representation in leadership roles. This goal has now been extended to include FTSE 250 companies.
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