In this women in leadership podcast episode, we interview Hugo Martinho, the human resources director for the Asia-Pacific region of a global engineering and manufacturing company. Hugo describes the challenges women face in the industry and region, and also explains several steps his company has taken to address gender inequity, including how removing names from résumés helped cut unconscious bias among hiring managers:
“In many cases, to their surprise at the time, they would end up short-listing 3 CVs, and all of them females…It was not about discriminating against men, but it was about not letting people make decisions based on gender.”