Enthusiasm ‘plateaus’ for helping women into workplace

Organisations are experiencing ‘gender fatigue’ when it comes to implementing gender diversity in the workplace, a leading HR expert has claimed.

Carol Kulik, research professor of Human Resource Management at the University of South Australia Business School, told a breakfast briefing for HR professionals yesterday that despite a sense of urgency from external pressures for organisations to implement gender diversity, the opposite is happening and progress may have plateaued.