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Target candidate - Women

So i’ve just seen an interesting advert for an HRBP, “encourage women and candidates from a BAME background to apply” Bame i’m not surprised to see as the recent people survey shows a potential lack of diversity and that HR is dominated by women - so i’m perplexed why that is remotely needed? This is for a train company so not necessarily a gender sensitive role.
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  • The HR team at that train company may well be currently dominated by men.
  • In reply to Robert James Munro:

    Either this or it's a generic statement added to all of their job adverts.
  • In reply to Robey:

    Or they have few women in the organisation and HR helps the overall figures!
  • Agree it's probably that females are underrepresented generally.

    Although funnily enough I was on a webinar yesterday with about 60 people from HR/L&D backgrounds. The companies they were from were typically male dominated - manufacturing/travel/engineering sectors - and there was only I'd say about 20 give or take of us that were female on the webinar, so I also wouldn't be surprised if its because this company's HR team is mostly male.
  • all fair points, I was just surprised to see it - but in the same way i’d be surprised to see if the commons was advocating for males for example!