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The Issue

Closing the Gender and Racial Corporate Leadership Gaps

Women represent 50.8% of the United States population. And while women enter the workforce at the same rate as men, women and particularly multicultural women are not advancing into corporate leadership positions at an equal rate as men.

Not only is it the “right thing to do,” data supports that there is a bottom line benefit to gender parity, and in order to recruit and retain the best talent, companies must advance and invest in women.

The Problem By The Numbers

The 2023 global gender gap score stands at 68.4%, indicating it will take 131 years to reach full parity. More from the World Economic Forum on the current state and evolution of gender parity in the U.S. and across the globe below.

World Economic Forum

Women currently hold 31 (or 6.2%) CEO positions at S&P 500 companies

Catalyst

In 2021 women represented 48% of entry level professionals, 30% of VPs and 24% of C-Suite executives

Lean In & McKinsey 2020

The gap in representation at every level of the pipeline is even wider for multicultural women, who make up 17% of entry level professionals, 7% of VPs and only 4% of C-Suite executives

Lean In & McKinsey 2020

In January 2022 there were over 1 million fewer women in the labor force as compared to February 2020

National Women's Law Center

The Benefits to Gender Parity

Companies with more than 30% women executives are more likely to outperform companies with smaller representations of women leaders

McKinsey 2020

Companies with more diverse management earned 38% more of their revenues, on average, from innovative products and services than companies with less diversity in management roles

Catalyst

There is a positive correlation between increased gender diversity in leadership positions and greater returns on capital

Credit Suisse

Companies in the top quartile for executive team gender diversity are 25% more likely to have above-average profitability than companies in the bottom quartile

Lean in & McKinsey 2020
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