Glass Half-Broken

 

INTRODUCTION

THE STALLED WORKPLACE REVOLUTION

In 2019, women made up the majority of college-educated US workers for the first time ever, and the gap between the percentage of women versus men in the labor force was the lowest on record.¹ Other developed countries have also seen women enter the labor force in greater numbers—even Japan, where women’s workforce participation has long lagged behind other large economies, has experienced an uptick in recent years.² While the Covid-19 pandemic upended the global economy in early 2020 and chipped away at these gains, such milestones ought to suggest that women are becoming more and more represented in positions of leadership across business and society. The hard-fought battles of the twentieth ...