Comment No female applicants? Blame HR, or someone else? (Score 1) 779
If there were no female applicants for your team, either your HR department isn't doing a good job of advertising the job to women, or else your team is doing a lousy job of looking like somewhere a women would feel comfortable working.
My company's not perfect, but they're a lot better at it than that - losing a big lawsuit 40 years ago got their attention. My current department doesn't have a lot of women in it; my previous department had women as more than half of the managers (varied over the years, as we kept reorganizing), and so did the sales department we did tech consulting for. The last time my group hired a contractor through the HR department, probably 1/3 of the applicants were women (the one we really wanted to hire had found a better job before HR got us her resume, sigh. We hired a guy who didn't work out, then hired an old friend who'd contracted with us years before and was willing to come back again.)