10/12/2017

How Men and Women View Progress in the Workplace

Opposing views may account for the lack of gender equality in leadership roles

Plenty of lip service is paid to elevating women to senior leadership roles in organizations. So why isn’t it happening?

Taking a deep dive into views about gender in the workforce, The Wall Street Journal posits that one major challenge to breaking the glass ceiling is that “men and women are at odds over whether there even is a problem to begin with.”

Women think gender equality is still a work in progress, while many men think the problem has been solved. “Significantly more men than women say their companies are level playing fields and have plenty of women leaders, even in places where less than 1 in 10 top executives are women,” writes Vanessa Fuhrmans. “And they are much more likely to say gender diversity isn’t a priority for them, often because they think merit would suffer.”

Please click here to read the complete article from Associations Now.