A new study identified the biggest obstacle women face to advancing to leadership positions and provided solutions for removing the barriers that hold women back.
A new study proposes a solution for adding 1 million women to management positions in the next five years.1 million women may become managers in the next five years. A new study found that the biggest obstacle women face to advancing to leadership positions is the first promotion to manager and provided solutions for removing the barriers that hold women back.
“Since men significantly outnumber women at the manager level, there are significantly fewer women to hire or promote to senior managers. The number of women decreases at every subsequent level,” the researchers wrote, “So even as hiring and promotion rates improve for women at senior levels, women as a whole can never catch up. There are simply too few women to advance.”People don’t realize that the promotion to manager is one of the biggest challenges to reaching gender parity.
More than half said they think that their company will reach gender parity in leadership positions in the next 10 years, which is more optimistic than the researchers projection that it will take decades at the current rate, and might not happen at all. The researchers propose that there are five primary solutions companies can take to fix the “broken rung” and achieve gender equality sooner.
The good news is that the report finds that if women are promoted and hired to first-level management positions at the same rate as their male counterparts, there will be 1 million more women in management positions in corporate America in the next five years.
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