The global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company recently released a national report called “Women in the Workplace 2019.” It reviews the status of women at all levels of leadership in the 600-plus companies that participated, including a quarter of a million individual workers surveyed. It shows where progress has been made since their last study in 2015, revealing improvement at senior levels, and emphasizing the need for greater efforts earlier in the pipeline to create lasting progress.
The good news about corporate America is that there are more women at the top. Senior leadership has risen from 17% in 2015 to 22%, and 44% of companies have three or more women in their C-suite, up 15% from five years ago.