A new study finds women are less likely to be hired into manager-level jobs and are far less likely to be promoted into them.
McKinsey and LeanIn.org’s Women in the Workplace 2018 Study was just released, showing that women’s progress in holding a more equitable proportion of company roles remains very slow.
The cumulative average growth rates show progress from 2015-18 by level. While it is encouraging that there has been an uptick in the C-suite, many of the other areas remain fairly-to-entirely flat in their improvement over time.
Entry level has improved to almost parity, which is great news for the long-term if the barriers that keep women from moving forward are removed. However, the stall-out at the manager and senior VP levels are particularly worrisome, as those are the backfill roles to critical management positions ahead of them.
Without bolstering those numbers, we have no chance of improving the senior manager, director, VP and C-suite numbers. And the overall trend line from entry level to C-suite remains steeply negative.
One of the key findings in this year’s study is that women are less likely to be hired into manager-level jobs and are far less likely to be promoted into them. Hence the pressing need to continue to work on internal structures, both operational and cultural, to make sure women get more at-bats and a fair shake at moving forward.
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