Despite decades of advocating for gender equality, leadership roles across sectors continue to be male-dominated.
From tech and finance to healthcare and manufacturing, those occupying top leadership posts are more often male. Even in fields like education, where the workforce is overwhelmingly female, men dominate state and school district CEO positions.
Male-dominated fields can be fraught with a culture that reinforces and replicates the underlying bias. Melinda French Gates, in a recent interview with Yahoo Finance, succinctly captured this dynamic: “I think you get these industries where, when over time they become very male-dominated, then the guys expect that everybody’s going to act the way they act,” she said. “And when they don’t see somebody leading or acting the way they are there, there’s pushback.”
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