10 signs you might be running a misogynistic business
1 min readJun 15, 2021
- There are hardly any women in senior positions, with the possible exceptions of marketing and HR, which aren’t really considered by you to be senior positions.
- You say “there just aren’t many women in this industry”, when there is absolutely no rational reason why that should be the case.
- You say “it’s a female-dominated industry but, funnily, all the people running this business are men.”
- You say “we just don’t get many CVs from women!”
- You say “we had some women but they keep leaving.”
- You complain that the gender pay gap doesn’t compare like-for-like jobs — it’s just that women do lower paid roles.
- You think women like doing lower paid roles.
- Men are pushed to expand their experience, women have to prove their experience.
- Yet, paradoxically, the older your female employees get, the more their career prospects diminish.
- The only women you have spoken to this week are your female PA and your family members.
