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| In this issue, we look at the actions that allies aren’t taking and the number of women in Central and Eastern Europe’s C-suites. |
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| Most White employees in the US see themselves as allies to women of color. That’s according to Women in the Workplace, the largest study of women in corporate America, conducted by McKinsey in partnership with LeanIn.Org. In this year’s survey—which included more than 65,000 people of all genders—more than three-quarters of White employees said that they consider themselves allies to women of color at work. But the survey also asked what allyship actions these respondents are consistently taking. |
| Less than half of White employees report that they are educating themselves about the experiences of women of color. Less than half say they’re consistently giving credit to women of color for their work and ideas. And only about 40 percent are actively confronting discrimination. |
| Just one in ten White employees mentor or sponsor women of color—and only one in five say they are advocating for new opportunities for these colleagues. At the same time, women of color say that advocating for new opportunities for them is the single most important action an ally can take. |
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| That’s the share of top firms in Central and Eastern Europe that have no women on their executive teams. The figure is based on a recent McKinsey analysis of more than 350 companies in seven countries across the region: the top 50 or so firms in Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Ukraine. Around 30 percent of the region’s leading companies have just one woman in the C-suite, while a quarter of top companies have two or more women on their executive teams. Certain countries, such as Romania and Ukraine, stand out for greater representation of women at the executive level. But at the going rate, the region will not achieve gender parity in executive representation until 2062—nearly a decade after Western Europe and more than two decades after the Nordic countries. Still, there’s a bright spot in the corporate pipeline: the region’s relatively high share of female managers. |
| — Edited by Julia Arnous, an editor in McKinsey’s Boston office |
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