Increasing Gender Diversity Without Quotas

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Diversity and inclusion (D&I) continues to be a priority in the corporate world, especially in the housing ecosystem. To increase opportunities for women, some have advocated legislative action. One example is California’s potential SB 826 bill, a law that would require the state’s largest public companies to have at least one woman on their board by the end of 2019. While such policy action may be perceived as long overdue, enforcing quotas is not an all-encompassing solution to the lack of diversity in companies’ executive positions.

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Bad Company Culture Holds Women Back, Not Motherhood

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A recent report from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) dispels the myth that women’s ambition in the workplace decreases at the hands of motherhood, revealing that the lowering of women’s career goals is actually a result of company cultures failing to implement diversity and inclusivity.

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