India: Companies hire only women if female talent quits

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'Making up for the loss of a woman talent with another woman hire is the new mantra at corporate India which is going all out to improve upon its gender diversity ratio at the workplace.

Sodexo India, Fluor, an engineering, procurement and construction maintenance firm, and Pitney Bowes, a global technology company, follow such a practice of replacing a woman employee with another woman employee.

Gender ratios are currently skewed towards male employees even in some of the most progressive organizations today. There appears to be a sense of urgency with which companies are adopting new practices to improve their gender ratios.

"We have come up with a new practice of replacing a woman with a woman. If we lose out on a woman employee, we will ensure that she is replaced by another woman employee so that we maintain our gender diversity. We will, however, not compromise on quality," said Rohini Anand, senior VP & global chief diversity officer for Sodexo.'

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Avon in India has the same policy re male sales reps, or hospitals in India re male nurses, etc. Probably not.

But no matter. Screening for pants contents shouldn't be happening anyway, unless the job inherently requires ppl of a certain sex to do it.

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