Cherchez la femme. Aside from a few Canadian readers, few of you probably know French, so I’ll translate: It means seek out the woman.
It strikes me as very odd that so many men occupy so much real estate in the human resources brain trust of bloggers, particularly when most numbers I see put woman at about 85 percent of the professionals in the HR industry.
A quick click-thru of Recruiting.com and EREchange’s blogrolls turns up few women. Sumser, Crispin, Manaster, Sullivan, Davis, Taylor, Warren, Goldberg, Hurst. All men.
Where are the women?
I’ll be the first to admit I’d like more insight into women in our marketplace. They’re my customers and my prospects. A la Jerry Maguire: "Help me, help you."
Sue Meisinger, president of SHRM, join the blog party. Consider this your official invitation. Female recruiters and HR pros, the world over, join the conversation. We want to know what’s on your mind.
Regardless of your place in the big world of HR, I think everyone can admit that the industry’s blogosphere is a great thing. But it’s beginning to look like one of those sad high school parties where, "Dude, where are the girls?" is heard like a broken record. Or maybe that was just me. Anyway ….
I’m pretty sure I read a survey once that said women speak about 7,000 words a day to men saying about 2,000. So, women of HR, let it out. We’re listening.
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August 1st, 2005 at 10:14 am
We’re having an interesting discussion over on researchzilla why so many WOMEN seem to outnumber MEN in the research business – your post made me think of a few reasons
that may be the case:
Are women doing most of the work and are too busy to talk/contribute in these opinion-influencing forums ? You know that old adage: “If you want something done get a woman to do it” and please let’s not forget “Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did – only backwards and on high heels.”
Are men more involved in the management thing and have more time to do this stuff?
Are we women getting what we ask for? Are we asking for the right things? I read once that women needed to learn to say “thank you” more often and “I’m sorry” far less. I think it’s good advice.
What does this say about our workforce and the sharing of duties?
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September 6th, 2005 at 9:54 pm
I’m sure I am a woman. Yep, I am definitely a woman. Hopefully you looked somewhere other than ERE for recruiting-related blogs.
September 7th, 2005 at 1:58 pm
There are quite a few of us out there. My blog hrlori.com is getting quite a bit of traffic in the California HR niche (though lately I’ve been posting national stories). It depends on where and how you’re looking.