How Empathy and Competence Promote a Diverse Leadership Culture

Achieving gender balance in management teams requires focusing on the role that the leadership environment plays in shaping ambitions, opportunities, and experience.

Meaningful diversity and inclusion actions are now seen as mandatory for new generations entering the workforce.1 But the effectiveness of current measures in the finance sector falls short of these expectations. The 2021 Women in the Workplace study conducted by McKinsey and LeanIn.org found that women in North America remain dramatically underrepresented in financial services.2 In particular, women are still promoted at lower rates than men at every step of the leadership ...

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