The struggle among dealerships to attract and retain female employees mirrors a broader problem: the industry's inability to keep new hires.
That inability, shown dramatically in the National Automobile Dealers Association's 2016 Dealership Workforce Study, hurts profits, says an author of the study.
Simply put, employees become most productive -- and dealerships see a return on investment from training those employees -- after three years. But too few dealership staffers stay around that long.