I can tell you as a guy in college that way more than half of the students are women (not complaining *grin*). Obviously when all of these students graduate there will be more women in business than men.

If you want to see more women in the work place then just chill out. It will happen soon enough. Just look at the college enrollments all over the US and you will see that I am right.

So, when employers want to raise the participation and profile of women in their organisations, they have to look further than family-friendly policies. Fixing inequality at work is harder than just offering flexible hours, parental leave and childcare assistance. Having policies for working parents is important and employers should continue to provide options for this group of employees, but this should not be where gender equality efforts end. Family-friendly policies do not address many of the issues holding women back such as pay equality, access to line management roles, unconscious bias, recruitment and promotion and access to training and mentoring.

Companies should ask themselves ‘Do we promote women and men on an equal basis?; ‘Do we have a bias towards men when recruiting for senior roles?; Do we reward men and women differently for doing the same work, when it comes not just to salary but to performance bonuses?’.