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Hot on the heels of International Women's Day, I read an interesting discussion about how to attract women to apply for jobs, without breaching anti discrimination laws. 

If you specifically need a woman for a job, and can justify this, you may have a case, according to  Susan Booth, Queensland's Anti Discrimimination Commissioner.

She cites the case of replacing a woman doctor in a practice where many patients prefer to deal with a woman doctor.  

Booth also offers some advice in her article about reviewing your workplace to make it more attractive to women applicants in the first place.

A Women Friendly Workplace May Consider -

• flexible work shifts
• inclusive job descriptions
• inclusive training programs
• adding "Women are encouraged to apply" to job ads

The two key points that stood out for me were reflections on

• Is there something that discourages women from working in the workplace?
  
  
• How can you make the workplace appealing to women?

What else would attract women to a workplace, or is more about the job itself and the pay?