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Today, only 10 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs are women. In the United States, women hold a mere 30 percent of senior leadership positions and only 40 percent of early manager roles. Some progress has been made over the past decades, but it has continued to be hampered at the company level by bias, inequities, microaggressions, and forms of harassment and at the human level by doubts, fears, and exhaustion. Women can take steps to overcome many of the barriers holding them back. However, Jennifer McCollum, the CEO of Linkage, Inc., explains that leaders must also do more to support women in the workplace, specifically by reshaping the culture, establishing more equitable systems and processes, encouraging female sponsorships, and offering new opportunities for leadership development. In In Her Own Voice, she asserts that efforts made in these areas will help companies access a more engaged, satisfied, and loyal workforce that's committed to excellence both as individual contributors and rising organizational leaders. |
