New LinkedIn data shows that the share of women hired into senior leadership roles globally declined in 2023—and the networking platform says it shows no signs of slowing down.

According to LinkedIn’s figures, in America, women made up 41.4% of leadership hires in 2022. That number dropped to 40.6% in 2023 and has continued to fall to 40.1% so far this year. 

Likewise, in the U.K. the share of women being hired into leadership roles has dropped to 37.1% this year from 37.8% in 2022—and the same declining trend is happening in France, the Netherlands and Germany, LinkedIn warns. 

“After hitting a peak around 2022 when we had the hiring frenzy that was so acutely associated with Covid, what we’ve seen since then is that the share of women being hired into senior leadership roles globally has not only stalled, but gone backward,” Sue Duke, VP of global public policy at LinkedIn says.

Read more at: https://fortune.com/2024/09/27/men-women-leadership-chances-diverge-pre-motherhood-linkedin/