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3、ed into virtually every corner of the globea sudden jolt and then a year of unfolding upheaval.Since the start of 2020,the pandemic has disrupted the world economy and the lives of countless people.It did so with a force of historic proportion,though not in equal measure.A particularly withering blo
4、w was dealt to working women,with millions cleaved from the global labor force over a single year.In the US alone,more than 5 million women were pushed from their jobs,putting female participation in the workforce at its lowest rate since 1988.1In this report,we examined leadership ranks across 10 i
5、ndustries and 9 geographic regions.What we found should set off alarm bells.Advancing women is not a top priority for the majority of global organizations.Employees feel“gender equity”fatigue over ineffective programmatic efforts to address the problem.And there is a clear need for new models of emp
6、athetic leadership.For years,studiesincluding our ownhave called attention to the systemic barriers to career advancement facing women.Still,the percentage of women in top leadership roles has not budged.There are fewer women in the pipeline today than in 2019,a situation made worse by the pandemic.