
Navigating the Gender Gap in Human Resources
When I first started my HR career, I worked in an all-female team. That is, apart from our male HR Director. This was back in the millennium in the era after Personnel had changed its name to HR and gained its status as a strategic function (and therefore a seat at the boardroom table). While something to celebrate, there was still a battle to be had with some managers who continued to view us as the old transactional personnel service. I remember (metaphorically) rolling my eyes every time a ma