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More women are in management today than ever, but it s still a tough climb to the C-suite.
Management coach Jill Griffin has been through the challenges.
She said working women should pursue their passions and have direct conversations.
It s a tough climb for women to the C-suite.
While women account for about 37% of managers, they still only make up 21% of the C-suite, according to studies from consulting firms Mercer and McKinsey & Company.
Women face plenty of challenges, even after they re hired at a company. They often have to deal with the broken rung, or the phenomenon where women and women of color get promoted much less often than their male counterparts. They re also often subjected to implicit bias, or the unconscious assumptions we make about ot
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Only about 4 accomplished this in 2020. Only about 20 have in recent history.
These trailblazing women come from a range of industries, from biomedicine to retail. When Bumble goes public this week, Whitney Wolfe Herd will be the youngest at 31.
The odds are stacked against women in business. But they re really stacked against women founders.
Women who do start companies aren t able to scale their businesses to the same size as men. Only 28% of startups have a female founder, according to a 2019 Silicon Valley Bank report, and companies with all-women founding teams are given less than 3% of all US venture capital dollars.
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Toxic positivity is encouraging people to be positive, even if they don t feel that way.
It can be detrimental to employee s well being, said Laura Gallaher, a leadership coach, organizational psychologist, and CEO of executive training firm Gallaher Edge.
If you think you work in an environment like this, it s important to be direct with your boss when you re communicating.
Ask them to lend a listening ear and say you don t need an immediate solution.
Over the last several years, companiesof allkinds have been called out for having toxic workplace cultures. Bon Appetit staffers said the publications leadership discriminated against employees of color. Top instructors at SoulCycle had sex with clients, used homophobic and racist language, and fat-shamed coworkers, Insider repo