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From Opinions Desk

Ahead of International Women’s Day, new data from LinkedIn sheds light on where progress in women’s leadership has slowed and how career paths are shifting as a result.

LinkedIn’s latest research explores what’s driving these trends; and what could help rebuild the path to the top.

Following are the main points of this research –

• Women make up 44% of the global workforce, but hold just 31% of VP-level roles and above
• Leadership momentum stalls at the manager level, with steeper drop-offs from VP to C-suite – especially in tech, finance and transportation
• Women now represent 48% of Gen Z workers compared to 27% of baby boomers, pointing to progress among younger generations entering the workforce

These findings show that women are treated as only the workers in much of the corporate sector across the world, not as decision makers, unless they own a company. Merely employing women in junior and mid-level positions is not going to make much difference, unless they are treated as capable of making decisions at the highest levels.