Image taken from Alcoa's career page.Sylvia Ann Hewlett mentions an interesting approach that this company Alcoa does to help get women into higher level positions by offering temp jobs to provide them with the skills needed to be promoted. "Alcoa has targeted the issue of attracting more women into operating management roles. Through its Women in Line Roles initiative, the company is offering high-potential women who might be interested in production or technical roles the chance to try them out through temporary assignments and help staying on track through carefully crafted career development plans." (23). Is this Women in Line Roles initiative actually effective or could it possibly be doing the opposite by having them as temporary assignments? Is the fact that they are doing temporary assignments convey to others (especially male employees in those positions) that these assignments are of lesser value?
Another article on Pittsburgh Post-Gazette says that these innovations are helpful and provide a gateway for female engineers.
The article lists many female success stories including Sona Avetisian who is working at Goldman Sachs and Ann Whitty the vice president and general manager for Alcoa's Rigid Packaging Division in Indiana who was behind the Women in Line Roles initiative 100%.
Image taken by Pam Panchak at the Post-Gazette
Gannon, J. (2008, June 20). A Gateway to Wall Street: Financial Services Firms Snapping Up Female Engineers.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08172/891286-28.stmHewlett, S. A., Luce, C. B., Servon, L. J. (2008). Stopping the exodus of women in science.
Harvard Business Review. June, 22-24.
Image taken from Alcoa's career page.
The article lists many female success stories including Sona Avetisian who is working at Goldman Sachs and Ann Whitty the vice president and general manager for Alcoa's Rigid Packaging Division in Indiana who was behind the Women in Line Roles initiative 100%.
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