Women Lead the Way

Foreword

Marie Wilson, Founder and President, The White House Project

Picture this: A problem of vital importance emerges in your community, and you are asked to gather a team you deem essential to its solution. Then you are told you can’t use half of the collected intelligence. That is basically the problem we face in politics and boardrooms across America—we systemically neglect one of our nation’s most vital resources: women.

Women are more than half of the U.S. population, yet we still occupy between 16% and 20% of the leadership positions across major sectors of society. Research consistently shows that when women lead side by side with men, more alternatives are offered, more skill sets are used, and more out-of-the-box thinking occurs ...