#women-in-leadership

#women-in-leadership

Women are hitting the top of the corporate ladder only to find something waiting for them: exhaustion. According to a report published Tuesday by McKinsey and LeanIn.org, a nonprofit founded by Sheryl Sandberg, burnout among senior-level women is the highest it has been in the past five years. Around 60% of these women said they have frequently felt burned out at work in the past few months, compared with 50% of senior-level men, per numbers from the "Women in the Workplace" 2025 study.

"This is a moment where corporate America is backsliding on women," Sheryl Sandberg, the former Facebook executive who founded Lean In, tells Axios. Despite years of corporate pledges to advance women, 54% of HR professionals surveyed by the group now say women's career advancement is a priority at their organization - and that falls to 46% for women of color. That marks a sharp drop from 2017, when gender equity surged on to corporate agendas after Donald Trump's election and 88% of companies told Lean In it was a high priority.

Women leaders often face an uphill battle to be taken seriously and rise to the top of their professions in a world characterized by male leadership. Once women enter midlife-often a time when both men and women begin taking on more serious leadership roles (think senior or executive-level positions)-that hill can feel even steeper if they find their work interrupted by sudden sweating, visible redness, or a struggle to find the right word in an important meeting.

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%).

Bet on Winners: Dimon helps people who've earned his respect and trust, whether it's hiring people like Miller at multiple companies or advising Duckett during her inaugural year as CEO of TIAA. That instinct isn't limited to women: Wells Fargo's Charlie Scharf comes to mind. Dimon says he's guided by performance, not gender or loyalty. To do otherwise, in his view, is a disservice to the team.

Meng Wanzhou (Sabrina Meng), Deputy Chairwoman, Rotating Chairwoman, CFO, Huawei Meng Wanzhou, daughter of company founder Ren Zhengfei, is chipmaker Huawei's CFO and, alongside deputy chair Eric Xu, one of its rotating chairs. Meng is now back in the chair's role in a six-month term that expires in March. Huawei is now part of China's chip plans. Nvidia considers Huawei a "strategic competitor." Huawei reported $118 billion in revenue for 2024, close to its 2020 record.

Few of the episodes-at least, of the eight that critics received in advance-are actually concerned with, or even set in, the eponymous breakfast news program. There are still a few big on-air moments, like the show's breaking news coverage of a potential plane crash, but for the most part The Morning Show has moved on from the behind-the-scenes politics of morning TV and the drama between its artificially sunny personalities.

AI is transforming workplaces and prompting companies to rethink their structures and decision-making processes, with women leaders feeling less equipped to leverage AI for impact.

Without the strong belief that God had called her to the priesthood, Vann would not have survived her journey through the ranks of the church.

President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth are on a mission to diminish the presence of women in high-ranking positions within the U.S. armed forces.

Crying at work often signals the culmination of unspoken frustrations, overextension, and emotional fatigue, rather than a lack of professionalism or competence.

When I started my yachting career more than 30 years ago, I'd never seen a woman captain. Women worked on ships, but they were few and far between in the world of yachts, and I'd never seen one at the helm.

The opportunity passed over not because it was out of reach, but because our inner dialogue said it wasn't ours to take.

Companies with more women on their boards tend to have fewer workplace safety incidents-especially when these women hold positions of power within the board.

"It's infuriating that, in 2025, men in leadership still seem to believe that women cannot be effective executives if they have a baby at home."

When I walked into work last year on my birthday, there was an envelope with my name written in cursive on my desk.

My personal and family encounters with our healthcare system, clinical practice during the height of the AIDS epidemic, and seeing the value of partnerships with patients as lived experience experts, have been my greatest influences.

Maria Pernia-Digings, a senior easyJet pilot, faces gender bias in aviation as only 6.5% of UK pilots are women, showcasing the industry's gender inequality.

Wainwright offers a candid look at entrepreneurship's harsh realities, detailing her personal and professional struggles after the closure of Pets.com during the dot-com crash.

Melinda reflects on her battle with perfectionism, stating that her drive for self-improvement may have caused her to miss opportunities for spontaneity in life.