Companies celebrated for their inclusive hiring policies and quotas to ensure female representation at management level also employ an overwhelmingly female battalion of PAs, secretaries and receptionists. One person told me that, in his household, the “secretary and nanny are women – the chauffeur and butler are men” because “that’s how it’s always been”. To be honest, I used to get irritated by women who bemoaned the difficulties of being female in the workplace. I moved from being a secretary to recruiting secretaries for other people, and it was then that I couldn’t ignore the realities of our industry. Alongside obvious measures (identity verification, credit checking), we meet every single client in person, and go to view their office.

Source: The Guardian October 17, 2016 07:07 UTC