1、WOMEN IN THE WORKPLACE 2025TABLE OF CONTENTS41330453Women in the Workplace is the largest study on the state of women in corporate America.1 Over the past 11 years,more than 1,000 companies and almost 500,000 employees have participated.For this report,we collected information from 124 organizations

2、 employing approximately 3 million people,surveyed 9,500 employees,and conducted interviews with 62 HR leaders.In 2015,LeanIn.Org and McKinsey&Company launched this annual study to provide companies with the insights and tools to advance women in the workplace.Sign up to participate in the 2026 stud

3、y at .About the StudyEmployee experiencesPART 14Pipeline and best practicesPART 217SolutionsPART 323Introduction32Conclusion46WOMEN IN THE WORKPLACE 20253INTRODUCTIONCorporate America risks rolling back progress for womenThis year,only half of companies are prioritizing womens career advancement,par

4、t of a several-year trend in declining commitment to gender diversity.2 And for the first time,there is a notable ambition gap:women are less interested in being promoted than men.When women receive the same career support that men do,this gap in ambition to advance falls away.Yet women at both ends

5、 of the pipeline are still held back by less sponsorship and manager advocacy.This is a solvable problem,but it requires a greater investment in womens careers at a time when a number of companies may be deprioritizing them.Some have already scaled back programs beneficial to women like remote work,

6、formal sponsorship,and targeted career development,and HR leaders worry about the long-term impact of changes like these for women.Corporate America has made real progress in womens representation over the past decadeand companies that prioritize gender diversity see bigger gains.For companies that