Over the past ten years, women have achieved important advances across the corporate talent pipeline, particularly in senior leadership, say senior partner Alexis Krivkovich and colleagues in McKinsey’s tenth-anniversary Women in the Workplace report. Most strikingly, women comprise 29 percent of the C-suite, up 12 percentage points from 2015. Yet improvement in representation has been notably slower at the entry and manager levels. And, at every stage of the corporate ladder, women comprise less than half the workforce.
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An area chart shows the representation of women in various corporate roles from 2015 to 2024. The y-axis represents the percentage of female employees in entry-level, manager, senior manager/director, vice president, senior vice president, and C-suite roles. In 2015, women held 45% of entry-level positions, rising to 48% in 2024. Managerial roles increased from 37% to 39%, senior manager/director roles from 32% to 37%, vice president roles from 27% to 34%, senior vice president roles from 23% to 29%, and C-suite roles from 17% to 29%. A dashed “Parity” line at the 50% mark on the y-axis indicates equal representation of men and women in the business world.
Source: Women in the Workplace 2024, McKinsey & Company and LeanIn.Org.
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To read the report, see “Women in the Workplace 2024: The 10th-anniversary report,” September 17, 2024.