Switching the default to advertise part-time working boosts applications from women by 16%

Straight from the excellent The Behavioural Insights Team:

They experimentally modified job adverts — “switched the default, so that all new vacancies would be advertised as available for part-time work, or as a job-share, in addition to full-time”

What do you get? “significant increase of 16.4% in the proportion of female applicants”

Full blog post and report: https://www.bi.team/blogs/switching-the-default-to-advertise-part-time-working-boosts-applications-from-women-by-16/

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