I’m continuously perplexed on how Cenovus remains so male dominated. I knew some very strong female managers and technical leads at the company that were let go during the rounds layoffs. Is upper management just generally unskilled with maintaining a balanced workplace when they decide who gets laid off?
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This is not the case in accounting where the "SVP Comptroller" consistently favours females and has targeted males in all of the layoff programs. I would wager that 95% of the layoffs to-date have been male in an already female dominated area.
Qualified people should be put into roles they are qualified for or would be hired for. Promoting women to meet quotas and achieve diversity (any diversity for that matter) weakens the Company, destroys morale and everyone pays the price - especially the encumbent.
Says one of the new 7 white male middle aged VP of CVE. Joining the ranks of the same.
This bs is so annoying. Grow up. Merit based promotion should be the only system employed. No more talk of genitals.
This company doesn’t promote women beyond manager and if, on the rare occasion they do, they usually do it in an incapacitating manner ( lets make you a ‘principal’) or as managers/directors of no one. If you make it that far, you are usually gentle and soft spoken and afraid of everything and everyone so you don’t intimidate the fearless leaders.
They squash women. They bully and harass them by telling them they’re too direct, or don’t ‘fit’ in, or can’t communicate or my personal favourite ‘can’t operationalize’.
There have been many competent capable women here, but they’re either pushed out by their insecure bosses (think of how many vp’s have no women at their leadership table) and how many have the token ‘one’ or they move on. Cenovus’ loss. As someone has said before - dump that operations leadership team - and Z and you will see vast improvement in diversity and inclusion (beyond gender).
Women have not managed to rise to the the level of incompetence necessary for VP level promotion, that is why there are few.
That is exactly right - get experience, get out and be successful somewhere else where those qualities are recognized and appreciated.
The smart women get trained, realize this place is a joke, and move on to be successful at other companies.
Question: Why do so women enter Finance, Geology, and Engineering programs? If women chose career paths that paid well, it would close most of the gender pay ratio in the US immediately, it's not as if shareholders wouldn't love for that to happen.
Promotions should be based solely on competence, not the contents of your underpants.
Either way, at Cenovus the only consideration is how well you s--- up to your EVP.
Our management is threatened by strong, smart and accomplished women. Successful companies know there is no room for discrimination of any kind.
In fact, when I think about it some more, they are threatened by anyone who can do the job better than they can.