Diversity in workplaces: Are we asking the right questions?
With Women's Day just around the corner, it feels like the right time to ask – are we evaluating diversity against the correct parameters?
I was once planning women in tech campaign, the objective of which was to hire more women for our engineering function. And while we prepared for the launch, I was asked by a senior leader to advertise only the job openings for testing and scrum master roles because "that is what most women do in technology." With stereotyping like that, even if the engineering function ended up with 50% diversity, it meant...