The lack of women in top positions at commercial real estate firms isn’t due to too many cutthroat leaders that are obsessed with the deal above all else. The problem also isn t a lack of strong candidates or that men are naturally better leaders.
Zenger/Folkman President Joseph Folkman, who leads a training and consultancy firm that works with Fortune 500 clients, said the inequitable way women often get shut out of leadership jobs in commercial real estate and so many other industries isn’t about a bad cultural fit, either. It’s about bias, aided and abetted by systemic, structural inequalities.