The Must-Read Articles for Talent Professionals This Week

“It feels like women have to jump through flaming hoops to make it to the top of the corporate ladder,” Fortune writes in a recent article, “but even when they’re outperforming their coworkers, female employees still bear the brunt of criticism.”

Case in point: According to a recent study by Textio, over 75% of top-performing women received negative feedback in their performance reviews compared to just 2% of top-performing men. What’s more, the feedback is often more about women’s personalities and social presentations rather than their actual work.

“About 88% of these outstanding women workers receive feedback on their personalities,” Fortune writes about the report, “while the same is true for only 12% of their male counterparts.”

To learn more about the report and what companies can do to implement a fairer performance review system (spoiler: the answer is not “throwing bias training at bosses and calling it a day”), be sure to check out Fortune’s piece at the top of our list below.

And further down our list of must-read articles for talent professionals, you can also find out how to combat stakeholder silence; what you should do if you’re taking over an existing L&D team; and why companies in one country are turning to a six-day workweek.

Here are the must-read articles from this week: 

1. Around 76% of High-Performing Women Receive Negative Feedback Compared to Only 2% of Men — and It May Be Driving Them to Quit (Fortune)

2. Reap What You Sow: Talent Acquisition in a Topsy-Turvy Market (ERE)

3. If You’re New to L&D, Start by Exploring Outside the Field (Lavinia Mehedințu on LinkedIn)

4. Kickstart Your New Hire’s Success by Connecting Them to the Right People (Harvard Business Review)

5. The Key to Hiring Executives (Joy M. D’Amore on LinkedIn)

6. How to Combat Stakeholder Silence: Get Direct (LinkedIn Talent Blog)

7. 6 Things You Should Do If You’re Taking Over an L&D Team (David James on LinkedIn)

8. Hybrid Work: How Leaders Build In-Person Moments That Matter (MIT Sloan Management Review)

9. How to Make Great Employee Testimonial Video Stories (Hung Lee on LinkedIn)

10. Declaring ‘Crisis,’ South Korean Firms Tell Managers to Work 6 Days a Week (The New York Times)

Here is the must-listen podcast:

‘So HR Is Making You Miserable?’ How HR Can Make Their Jobs Better (The Josh Bersin Company)