The Gender Effect of Time Flexibility

Women may find very difficult to pursue a fulfilling career. Firms often require a temporal flexibility which is different from the flexibility that employees (and women in particular) are willing to offer. This has profound implications on women's career prospects.

Luisa Gagliardi, Assistant Professor at Bocconi's Department of Management and Technology, has researched the "dark side" of flexibility and, in the fourth episode of the THINK DIVERSE podcast series, tells host Catherine De Vries what she has discovered.

Some companies make a willingness to work overtime hours a requirement for employment, but this may backfire because the company thus unnecessarily limits the talent pool available. The cost for a company can become dramatic when these spurious criteria are applied to top positions for which less qualified men can and do beat women candidates on this ground alone.

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