What Makes Ibm's Approach to Gender Diversity Stand Out?

At IBM, we understand that in order for us to help make the world a smarter place, we need a constant flow of new and diverse ideas. We also realise that the...

Well recently IBM has been quite active in the champions of change. Which is an Australian based initiative to look at organisations from the top down and making some very strong, strategic decisions about talent and how they sponsor and coach and mentor talented people. If people are considering IBM as a place of future work, that element of IBM which is around diversity and which is around supporting female talent would be considered because it is very important to the organisation. I've had the opportunity to take an extended maternity leave and spend 2 years on maternity leave with my youngest child and come back into the work force very easily. I have a friend who had children at the same time working for another organisation and there was pressure on her to come back after 6 weeks of having her third chld. At no point in time did I ever feel it was a bad thing being at IBM and making a personal decision to leave the workforce to go and have children. So at IBM you can actually see that they're actively looking to include and advance women in the workforce, and that makes them quite big.