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#gender-gap

Camdyn Glover used to be a quiet conservative. She worried what her teachers would think or if she would lose friends over her convictions. But she said something changed when Charlie Kirk was assassinated in September, and she started crying in her classroom at Indiana University while other students cheered and clapped. "We can't be silenced," Glover decided. Now she's visiting Phoenix with her parents and brothers for this year's Turning Point USA conference, the first to take place since Kirk's death.

According to nonprofit Lean In and McKinsey & Company's latest Women in the Workplace report, for the first time since the report began a decade ago, significantly fewer women than men are interested in getting a promotion at work. Compared to 80% of men in entry-level career stages, 86% in mid-career, and 92% of senior executives, only 69% of entry-level women, 82% in their mid-career, and 84% of female senior executives reported a desire to advance in their careers. The data was taken from 124 companies with 3 million workers, as well as interviews with 62 human resources executives.

Hearing directly from small business owners of all ages and understanding their challenges is critical for us to deliver on our commitment to savers across America, Renee Grimm, senior vice president of retirement plans for Capital Group, said in a statement.

The headlines are clear: AI is disrupting entry-level jobs across industries, including consulting and professional services. There's just one problem. Eliminating these roles overlooks a critical business need-your pipeline of next generation leaders. The rush from pyramid to diamond workforce models is short-sighted. In the pyramid model, you grow leaders from the ground up. In the diamond model, you cut the base and bet on later-stage talent to carry the weight.

Women remain markedly underrepresented in executive positions across Germany, with only 29.1% of leadership roles held by women in 2024, according to figures published by the Federal Statistical Office. About 1.32 million men and 540,000 women occupied management positions in 2024, leaving Germany well below the EU average of 35.2% leadership roles filled by women. Sweden led the bloc with 44.4% female representation, followed by Latvia (43.4%) and Poland (41.8%).

HR leaders know that perception shapes reality in the workplace. But what happens when half your workforce experiences the organization fundamentally counter to the other half? Fresh research from the cybersecurity tech firm Acronis reveals a troubling perception gap that should concern every HR professional in the tech sector and beyond. According to Acronis' "2025 Women in Tech Report," which features results of a survey of more than 650 IT professionals in eight countries, men and women are working in the same industry.

"On a hot and humid August morning in this southwestern Virginia town, football training camp is in full swing at Roanoke College. Players cheer as a receiver makes a leaping one-handed catch, and linemen sweat through blocking drills. Practice hums along like a well-oiled machine yet this is the first day this team has practiced, ever. In fact, it's the first day of practice for a Roanoke College varsity football team since 1942, when the college dropped football in the midst of World War II."

"None of them! The man on the phone, who I was on the phone 911 with, he was like, 'What's your emergency?' And I was like, 'My roommate got a copper IUD inserted and he goes IUD?' And I'm like, 'Yeah, like, you know, like the birth control?' This man is just like, 'Okay, sounds like you're having a medical emergency. I'll transfer you over to the paramedics.'"

The government has warned that people retiring in 2050 will be worse off than pensioners today unless action is taken to boost retirement savings.

Research shows many parents fail to educate children about managing money, particularly daughters. This has resulted in low financial literacy rates among women, especially Gen Z.

Understanding when gender gaps in mathematics emerge is critical for intervention. Martinot et al. emphasize that these gaps are noticeable starting in the first year of school.