Report: Pipeline’s Broken Promise 

For the past two decades leaders have counted on parity in education, women’s accelerated movement into the labor force, and company-implemented diversity and inclusion programs to yield a robust talent pipeline where women are poised to make rapid gains to the top. But results of this study show that these hopes were ill-founded—when it comes to top talent, women lag men in advancement, compensation, and career satisfaction. The pipeline is not healthy ; inequality remains entrenched. CEOs and other senior leaders were surprised and disappointed by the findings, and agreed that to succeed, organizations must better develop and fully leverage the highly talented women in the workforce. Now—not tomorrow, next week, or next year—is the time for renewed efforts to uncover and combat systemic gender inequity.

Read the report here.