A gender bias expert, Kim Elsesser, Ph.D., is the author of Sex and the Office and taught classes on gender at UCLA for eight years. She is a senior contributor for Forbes and has published in the New York Times and Los Angeles Times.
report highlights both positive progress and ongoing challenges for women in corporate America. After a decade of tracking the proportions of women at each management level, there are some positive trends, but doubts remain about whether these gains are sustainable. At the current pace of progress, the report estimates it will take 22 years for white women to achieve gender parity in the workplace and a whopping 50 years for women of color to gain equality.
The troubling reality isn’t just that it will take a half century to reach gender equality, but also that the level of progress required to reach even those goals may not be achievable. In fact, these projections are likely optimistic, as they rely on trends that could prove challenging to maintain over time. “If you look under the hood at the numbers, the progress is more fragile,” Thomas explains.
Sheryl Sandberg, founder of Lean In, emphasizes that the broken rung for women continues to be the most critical finding in the report. “Everyone wants women in senior leadership roles, but five years out of college, which is roughly when this happens, if for every 100 men, you only promote 81 women and 54 women of color, you're never going to get there,” Sandberg explains.
Sandberg suggests this pullback may result from backlash or a belief that enough progress has already been made. She points out that similar trends were seen after #MeToo when sexual harassment numbers initially dropped but increased again once efforts waned. “We just need to keep our foot on the gas pedal and remember how important this is,” Sandberg says of the need to continue pushing for women's advancement.
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