Rockefeller Foundation Releases New Report On Women in Leadership & Why It Matters

Monday, May 16, 2016

Rockefeller Foundation Releases New Report On Women in Leadership & Why It Matters

A new report, titled "Women in Leadership: Why It Matters" from the Rockefeller Foundation, indicates that this reality doesn’t line up with Americans’ perceptions.

Polling 1,011 adults online revealed that 9 in 10 surveyed think there are more women leading major companies than the 20 who actually do.

This perception was despite the fact that one in four respondents reported they had no women in leadership positions at their current employer and only 34% thought that their employers were placing a high priority on putting women in those jobs.

No wonder one in four said they believed there was a greater likelihood that humans would colonize Mars than get gender parity in the C-suite...

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