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CONCLUSIONS<br />

THE WICT PAR INITIATIVE SURVEY helps organizations<br />

in the cable media industry set gender diversity goals, institutionalize<br />

policies that promote gender diversity and inclusion,<br />

measure progress against goals, and achieve sustainable results.<br />

The percentage of women at executive and management levels is<br />

expected to remain stable over the next five to ten years if recent workforce<br />

dynamics persist, but could increase with improvements to turnover rates<br />

among women. Figure 27 shows the five-year industry outlook assuming<br />

recent workforce dynamics persist (i.e., under the “baseline” scenario), as well<br />

as under the assumption that organizations are able to close gaps in hiring,<br />

promotion, and, most notably, turnover rates. If organizations are able to close<br />

gaps in these key workforce flows, and, in particular, if organizations are able to<br />

retain women at the same rates as their male counterparts, we expect to see increases<br />

in the representation of women at executive and management levels over the next five<br />

years. However, these increases are expected to be relatively modest, suggesting that<br />

more aggressive efforts will be needed to see more substantial improvement.<br />

New this year, the examination of the young professional workforce has provided insight<br />

into the female representation of this cohort of the workforce. Higher female representation<br />

at executive and management levels is observed among the young professional workforce when<br />

compared to the overall workforce (40% vs. 35%) (see Figures 27 and 28). More encouraging is<br />

the observation that the five-year outlook under the “baseline” scenario for the representation<br />

of young professional women at the executive and manager levels is positive (estimated to be<br />

44% in 2021) (see Figure 22). The key factors to further improve the representation of women<br />

among young professionals at the executive and manager levels are improvements in hiring<br />

and retention. If organizations are able to hire and retain young professional women at the<br />

same rates as their young professional male counterparts, we expect the representation of<br />

young professional women at the executive and manager levels to approach parity (47%) over<br />

the next five years.<br />

48 2017 WICT PAR INITIATIVE EXECUTIVE REPORT

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