Skills-First Hiring Boosts Women in AI Talent Pools by 24% — But Only 1 in 3 Companies Is Doing It Right
New research from SHRM, LinkedIn, Harvard/Burning Glass, and the OECD shows skills-first hiring delivers measurable diversity gains, 10pp higher retention, and 35% financial outperformance — but only when organizations move beyond dropping degree requirements to genuinely restructuring how they ass…