Nearly 50% of men believe women are well-represented in senior-level roles, but women only fill 10% of these positions, according to the 2017 Women in the Workplace report. The study also found that 63% of men and 49% of women say their organization is doing a sufficient job supporting gender diversity.

Ride-hailing startups Uber and Lyft don't compete just on price anymore. Now that getting drivers is becoming a challenge, they're both rolling out features intended to attract and retain drivers.

Egg freezing and participation in global soccer tournaments are among the top 13 interesting perks companies offer to attract and retain top talent, writes Jillian Kramer. Google's death benefit gives surviving spouses and partners 50% of an employee's salary for 10 years, and Salesforce provides paid time off for volunteering and $1,000 to employees' favorite charities.

Technology such as chatbots and analytics can help HR improve hiring and boost diversity within organizations, writes Meghan Biro, founder and CEO of TalentCulture. HR professionals also must learn to utilize smaller, more focused amounts of data to improve recruiting, hiring and retention, she suggests in this commentary.

Women's "whisper networks" are a longstanding way to talk about abusive men in a safe manner, as seen in the wake of allegations against Harvey Weinstein, but is there a more powerful and concrete way to address the problem? Alex Press writes about what's needed to create "a coordinated effort to centralize the information currently floating around our networks, in an attempt to better disperse what we already know about abusers."