By the Numbers: The State of Women in the Workplace

It’s long been known that women in the workforce have had an uphill battle, in everything from getting equal pay to their male counterparts to how many women sit in top leadership positions. Even as new research has shown that women in top roles produce better financial results, “today’s lack of gender parity in leadership further informs and reinforces gender inequity because it has a measurable negative effect on the retention of female employees,” our researchers at NLI wrote in a paper on the science of gender and performance.