A chief executive was looking to hire a new division manager and brought the CVs of three women into an HR meeting. His all-male panel looked through the candidates, said they needed more experience and rejected them. So the CEO brought in a new set at the next meeting; again all women, again all rejected. Allyson Zimmermann, the executive director of Catalyst, a non-profit organisation that promotes women in business, uses this story to illustrate the promotion gap, the lesser-known but equally ugly sister of the pay gap. “Our research shows that women are promoted based on performance, while…

Source: The Times March 18, 2018 00:05 UTC