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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.
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