Companies with a higher percentage of promotions for women received more favorable employee views, especially opinions of senior leadership. (Photo: Fotolia)
Companies with policies supportive of greater gender diversity are more highly rated by their employees than companies that do not.
That's among the findings of a Willis Towers Watson analysis that also reports that companies that offer female employees supportive family services and health education programs provide better environments for work/life balance and workload management.
A survey of employees at 32 major companies included in the 2019 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index, which tracks the financial performance of companies committed to advancing women in the workplace through disclosure of gender-related data, explored employee attitudes toward their workplaces. Companies were more highly rated by workers when their programs matched their policies.
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Marlene Satter
Marlene Y. Satter has worked in and written about the financial industry for decades.
