Women have always paid a heavy price for economic instability. And with the global labour market cooling down from the hiring frenzy of 2020 and 2021, it is female professionals who are losing out. As hiring slows, the marginal progress made in recent years to increase the number of women in leadership is being wiped out.

In its annual Global Gender Gap Report, the World Economic Forum leverages LinkedIn data to identify and highlight key trends for women in the workplace. This year, our data shows that women are less likely than last year to reach a leadership position, which is bad news for women and bad news for the economy.

Read more at: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2024/06/how-an-ai-driven-future-can-include-more-women-in-leadership/