ArcelorMittal, the world’s leading steel and mining company, is the leading supplier of steel quality steel products in all major industries; however, ArcelorMittal is not leading with regard to diversity and inclusion. Currently employing 3,426 salaried employees, only twenty percent are female and eighty percent are white, non-Hispanic—not the most diverse statistics. This is a challenge for ArcelorMittal as they acknowledge that “what makes ArcelorMittal unique are its people,” yet they struggle to attract large numbers of women. Steel and mining have traditionally been male-dominated industries and ArcelorMittal would like to change that by identifying the barriers facing women in their workplace and creating a workplace to aid …show more content…
They work with these schools to place talented students at their many suburban and rural plant and office locations and, while an attempt has been made to educate students about the benefits of working for ArcelorMittal and to overcome some of the stigma associated with the mining and steel industry, the number of women at ArcelorMittal remains small. At the college level, the conversion rate from internships to full-time positions is 40:90 for males and 8:20 for females. As percentages, these numbers are not terribly far from each other, so its stands to reason that if ArcelorMittal can develop a plan to attract more qualified women interns that they will be successful in increasing diversity. The current partnerships with Women in Business and the Society of Women Engineers seem to be doing little to solve recruitment issues and there simply aren’t nearly as many women in math, science, engineering, technology, or business degree programs as men so other solutions to draw in more women must be