10/11/2017

Getting to Gender Equality Starts With Realizing How Far We Have to Go

It’s not because of attrition or for lack of requests for promotion

Nearly 50 percent of men think that when just 1 in 10 senior leaders in their company is a woman, that’s sufficient. Remarkably, women feel the same way when they see 3 in 10 women in senior leadership. When so many people see a leadership team that’s only 10 percent women—who, let’s remember, are half the population—and think, “That’s good enough,” it’s a sign that we’re too comfortable with the status quo.

Our yearly Women in the Workplace report is out today (a collaboration with McKinsey & Company), and it paints a sobering picture: progress toward equality in the workplace continues to be slow and may even be stalling.

Women are still under-represented at every step of the corporate ladder, and the situation is even worse for women of color. All told, only 1 in 5 C-suite executives is a woman—and not even 1 in 30 is a woman of color. And it’s not because of attrition or for lack of asking. Women and men stay at their companies at roughly the same rate, and they ask for promotions at the same rate, too.

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