All it will take is for one male to be overlooked for employment after a female is hired. Out of all the "new hire" positions filed in our state in the last 2 years, roughly 25, only one female that I know of applied. But she was overlooked by management (even though HR pushed her name through) because on face value (not looking at names or gender), she did not meet half of the qualifications that put many more people ahead of her in the running had. Kind of hard to justify hiring a past camp counselor/waitress over a surplussed ATT tech with 8 yrs experience.
I'm not saying they are out there, but most women don't want a career of carrying a 75lb ladder and climbing several times a day, or crawling under a half condemned mobile home that's 10 inches off the ground, or digging up a cut drop or cut cable by hand when it's 95 plus outside. Or, as the only female I knew of that was a CST and left, couldn't handle every other male customer, hitting on her and literally throwing themselves on her and in one case exposing himself to her. Most of this happened on her scheduled Saturday's, when most people are home, partying and already drunk by noon. Add to that, the extra workloads that like all of us know, carry us to 8-9 pm at night.
So what will the company do, not let a female work past 5pm so she won't have to be rolling up to some drunk dudes house at 7-8pm to work on his internet, in which the modem is in his bedroom, and the trouble is actually his pc from all the p--n he watches, etc...... I know it's up to the woman to decide if that's the job for her or not (hell, I've pulled up to houses before and been scared out of my wits before and I'm 215, 6'-1"), but there's a lot that can snowball from this, just because they want get more diversity in the field.
But, as stated on Stream...." As part of Windstream’s commitment to diversity in the workplace, we are seeking to increase the number of female Field Ops Technicians."
Kind of goes against pg 17, of 2019 Windstream People Practices, Section Equal Employment Opportunity Policy......" Windstream is committed to matching the talents and experience of each particular applicant with each specific job opening, without regard to race, color, religion, s-x, age, national origin, genetic information, protected veteran status, current military status, disability, s-xual orientation, gender identity, marital status, or any other status protected by law, and to give full consideration to qualified disabled individuals and protected veterans. All employment decisions will be based only on valid job requirements."
Maybe whoever reads the LayOff from outside this company needs to investigate this one!