Examples of good practice

• Wording and placement of advertising vacancies designed to attract a wider pool of candidates for male-dominated and female-dominated positions

• Instructing recruitment consultants to obtain a gender-balanced list of candidates for all positions

• Ensuring that part-time staff have equal access to training, development and promotion to senior levels

• A mentoring scheme to encourage women to develop in the organisation

• Centralised records that can be analysed by gender to check progress on appointments, take-up of opportunities for training and development, applications for promotion, successful applications for senior roles and rates of progression by women and men.