"I'm 56, so this is my fourth decade in the workplace, and we are in a particularly troubling moment in terms of the rhetoric on women. You see it everywhere, in all the sectors,"
"But what I've seen is when we make progress, we backslide, we make progress, we backslide."
"No matter what's going on in the overall zeitgeist, companies don't have an excuse to write off half their population,"
Hundreds of thousands of women left the U.S. workforce in early 2025, with more than 455,000 exiting during the first eight months while 100,000 men entered jobs in the same period. Workforce losses have been disproportionately severe for women of color, with the unemployment rate among Black women at 7.5%, above the national average of 4.4% and the roughly 3.5% rate for jobless white men and women. Reduced female participation is suppressing U.S. economic growth; raising participation to levels of other wealthy countries could add about 4.2% to GDP. Companies with 15% or more women in senior management perform better. Rising rhetoric promoting a "masculine" workplace culture and retreat from progress are contributing to a notable backslide in women's careers.
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