I’m a lucky one, I work for a company that promotes women in science (in particular, in computational biology). About 25 % of my colleagues are women. In our company we are trying to empower women: every time a woman joins our team, she gets a male report. My colleagues are brilliant scientists and I’m proud to work with them. And I have to say, if you are hiring only men, you are almost committing a crime against your business.

We are very talented and we are underestimated.

This means that on labor market you are more likely to find a talented and high qualified female employee than male. Women are half the Earth's population but only 15% of board members at big American firms, and 10% in Europe. As a recent study reported, companies with three or more women on the board outperform other companies with 53% more returns on equities, 42% more return on sales and 66% more return invested capital.

Women have completely different way of thinking and this means we can come up with more extraordinary solutions. Plus, we have a lot of social roles: we are wives, mothers, so we can look at the problem from different angles.

Women are more loyal employees.

Yes, that is true. Maybe, this is because hiring preferences are still given to male candidates. If a woman finds a mentor who recognizes her skills and promotes her, she is even more loyal to the company. Turnover rate is especially low for flexible jobs, for example, in IT or intellectual spheres. Less turnovers mean less expenses on training new employees.

Women are more engaged employees.

Statistics says that 33% of women are engaged with at work, 28% of men.

If you want to build a successful business with a productive solid team, you need to raise employees’ morale. Engaged employees that follow the company’s mission are more loyal to the company, especially during hard times. In biotech high motivation is more important because workers in the intellectual sphere, scientists, are full of passion for their experiments and discoveries. They will not work for you, if you don’t share this passion.

Women are more hardworking employees.

We are less distracted from our task in the workplace study showed.

For women it is beneficial to have flexible job as a bioinformatician, programmer, data scientist. We want to stay in science, but in wet lab it is often extremely hard when you get pregnant. But if you have remote work you can stay at home with a baby and work. Also you can work from a beach ;)

Yeah, remote work as a bioinformatician or programmer is a beautiful dream, but if you think about more deeply: promote females in IT sphere could even solve extremism. It is not a secret that poverty and extremism go hand in hand. It is also not a secret in third world countries women are still oppressed. But there are more candidates from third world countries in IT labour market: they are reasonably cheap and they are reasonably good in coding/ design/ software development. So promoting women in IT, giving them work and payment, could change economics situation dramatically and so fight extremism in a peaceful and civil way.

Hope that next time you got a CV from a female candidate you will think twice.

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