All the managerial and professional specialty occupations, human resource management has the highest proportion of women. In 1996, women made up 62.5 percent of all "personnel, labor relations and training" positions - almost 14 percentage points higher than the average for all managerial and professional occupations - according to the U.S. Department of Labor. What's more, the percentage of women in HR is double what it was 25 years ago, when women made up 31 percent of the profession. Relative to other fields, "HR has one of the highest percentages of women in top executive positions," says John F. Johnson, an executive recruiter who places chief HR executives in Fortune 1000 companies. "You find a higher percentage here than in finance, legal or other functions," he adds. And more women appear to be headed into the profession, based on the college students studying HR. For example, 70 percent of the student members of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) are women, according to Beth McFarland, manager of student programs. Although the HR profession seems especially hospitable to women, many professionals and labor economists see such success as a mixed blessing. Women are considered for HR as they can get to know and understand the candidates mindset well but according to me both can do a good job in this field but that depends on the experience as HR requires a good experience and various skills to hire, recruit, various techniques to manipulate it.
There is some concern that the job may not be treated the same way in the sense that - overall - 'women' jobs tend to pay less for a given level of qualification. And there's some debate over why that's the case. However, researchers in a recent report by the Population Reference Bureau point out that a growing percentage of women in high-paying, high-status fields - such as computers, law, medicine and general management - has not reduced the salary or prestige of those fields. Why haven't more men been entering the profession? They may perceive HR as being less influential than other field. Women are generally more inclined towards behavioral approach system and they are generally scared of numbers so the best option to get into is HR as its all about Theoretical subjects and its mostly about psycho study... as HR is about knowing people and there behavior and thereby make decisions/predictions on the basis of your analysis.
Questions:1. What is the scope for women in HR?
2. Why are there more women in HR than men?
