Formal policies are just one piece of what’s needed to attract, develop, retain, and promote talented women in your organization.
Examine our Glass Ceiling Benchmark Survey findings on human resources professionals’ views on diversity importance, organizational effectiveness in achieving diversity, barriers affecting nontraditional manager mobility, and prevalence and importance of practices
Examine gender differences in managers’ developmental job experiences, comparing men’s and women’s opportunities. Study reveals differential access to stretch assignments, challenging projects, and career-advancing experiences affecting leadership development.
Discover how membership in a self/rater agreement group (underraters, accurate raters, overraters), along with gender, relate to ratings of self-awareness and leadership effectiveness. Study investigates whether accurate self-knowledge predicts performance, exploring mechanisms
Understand common beliefs about promotion (versus reality), examining factors that actually predict advancement. Study reveals discrepancies between managers’ perceptions of what drives promotion and organizational practices, exposing misaligned expectations and political
Understand how women managers learn from experience differently from male counterparts. Research explores gender-specific developmental patterns, learning preferences, and career progression dynamics shaping women’s leadership development pathways.
Explore a study of executive women examining their managerial behaviors. Research includes an excerpt from the authors’ book, Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Can Women Make It to the Top in America’s Largest Corporations?
Learn how women’s wages at midlife relate to the family life cycle and work career patterns. Research examines how family responsibilities, career interruptions, and work-life sequencing decisions affect women’s earnings trajectories and advancement opportunities