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Gender Ratio
Proportion of female to male employees
How it’s computed
COUNT(female) / COUNT(male)
What the evidence shows
Evidence (effect sizes, priors, validity) is syncing from Principia.
What this metric can show you
Gender Ratio can tell roughly 25 pre-built stories — each a designed scene the data either confirms or it doesn’t. Bring your numbers and the Story Finder runs every one of these shapes against them.
specific to workforce composition
{mover} is becoming a bigger share of who you are
workforce-composition · T1
{mover} is fading from the mix
workforce-composition · T1
A few people hold the whole network together
org-networks · T1
One unit is over-managed
workforce-composition · T1
Spans are stretched thin in one corner
workforce-composition · T1
The mix is holding steady
workforce-composition · T1
The organization you have isn't the one you had
workforce-composition · T1
universal shapes — any single metric can take these
A few large values are doing the talking
any focus · T1
A one-time event, not a trend
any focus · T1
It doesn't track — the premise is false
any focus · T1
It's concentrated — one group stands apart
any focus · T1
Scenes are pre-built; your data is the toggle. Browse the full deck or watch one play end-to-end in The Quiet Exodus.
Run it on your data
This metric is computed in the People Analytics Toolbox on your own numbers. See pricing — posted, no quotes.
sources: toolbox:metrics-catalog
What the literature says
The measurement literature behind this signal — sourced, so you can defend it.
“Five hundred employees were evaluated, and of them, 125 satisfy the bonus eligibility criteria. Of those 125 employees who are eligible, 20 are female and 105 are male, as shown in Table 6-8 .Table 6-8.Eligibility Rates by Gender TotalEligibleNot EligibleEligibility…”
— Compensating Employees Fairlymatch 53%
“An employee’s pay rate may, at the discretion of management, be red circled when his or her position is downward reclassified and the current salary is above the pay range maximum for the new classification. Occurrences of red circling are most commonly found in cases of…”
— Compensating Employees Fairlymatch 51%
“This differential is likely to be practically significant. Assuming that the average salary rates for men and women are $30,680 and $29,640, respectively, the estimated differential is 3.5% of women’s annual salary in this similarly situated employee grouping.13 In most cases,…”
— Compensating Employees Fairlymatch 51%
Resources: Compensating Employees Fairly