Can skills-based hiring increase women's representation in Ieadership jobs?

Women make up 46pc of entry-level workers but only a quarter of C-suite roles across all sectors in Ireland. The manufacturing sector currently employs the least women. According to the latest Labour Market Pulse report by IDA Ireland, LinkedIn and Microsoft Ireland, companies should focus on skills-based hiring (rather than title-based) to open up roles to a more diverse range of candidates. The report looked at how women’s participation in the Irish workforce, a timely theme given the relatively recent releases by employers of their gender pay gap reports. Many of these reports showed that women are underrepresented in tech leadership roles. They are also less likely to hold highly-paid tech roles. The Labour Market Pulse report picks up on this issue of representation. It found that women’s representation in the manufacturing sector is the lowest, followed by the technology, information and media grouping. It was highest in hospitals and healthcare. However, there was still a disparity between the amount of entry-level women workers and those in leadership roles in that sector. Across all sectors, from professional services – where representation was the third lowest – to consumer services, women were better represented at entry-level than at leadership level. The
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