How do I attract, retain and advance female employees?
Employers wanting to improve gender diversity might consider implementing some of the following strategies to attract, retain and advance women in your workforce: • Research what is needed to improve gender diversity in your organisation. Consider human resources data such as the gender distribution of staff at different levels, in different occupations and in different sections of the organisation, and recruitment and exit trends. Surveys, focus groups and regular data analysis may be helpful. • Develop a recruitment marketing strategy that targets women and is inclusive of particular groups of women such as school leavers, graduates, mature aged women, Indigenous women, culturally and linguistically diverse women or women with a disability. • Learn from award-winning equal opportunity organisations who have successfully implemented policies and changed their practices to better attract, retain and advance women. • Tap into the female graduate pool by sponsoring or engaging with exist
