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“When McKinsey and LeanIn.Org released their annual
Women in the Workplace
report earlier this month, the headline seemed measured, almost cautious:
"Corporate America risks rolling back progress for women."
Read the data closely, and a different story emerges. This isn't about "risk"
or companies passively "losing focus." The 2025 report, despite its carefully
neutral framing, documents something more troubling: corporations are making
deliberate choices that harm women's advancement, and they're doing it at
scale.
Even more concerning, the report systematically avoids examining the
populations most affected by these choices: women caregivers, women over 40,
women with disabilities, and women in roles vulnerable to AI displacement and
layoffs. What McKinsey presents as a study of "women in the workplace" is
actually a study of women who've managed to survive in workplaces increasingly
hostile to anyone with caregiving responsibilities or flexibility needs.”
Via Esther Schindler.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
