Women in the Workplace Study 2016: By The Numbers

“A comprehensive study of the state of women in corporate America.” Would you agree with these stats?

Image of woman using laptop while sitting at her desk. Young african american businesswoman sitting in the office and working on laptop.Sheryl Sandberg’s LeanIn.Org teamed up with consulting firm McKinsey & Co. to release the second annual Women in the Workplace study. The study bills itself as “a comprehensive study of the state of women in corporate America.” The study examined 132 companies with a combined total of 4.6M+ employees. Another 34K+ filled out a relevant survey about their experiences in the workplace.

You can read the full results, but here are some relevant stats:

Able to Participate Fully in Meetings:

  • Women: 67%
  • Men: 74%

Believe Their Contributions are Appropriately Valued:

  • Women: 49%
  • Men: 54%

Believe Their Gender Will Make It Hard to Advance:

  • Women: 33%
  • Men: 12%

Lobbied for a Promotion or New Assignment:

  • Women: 39%
  • Men: 36%

Asked for an Increase in Compensation:

  • Women: 29%
  • Men: 27%

Negotiated and Received Feedback They Were “Bossy”/”Aggressive”/”Intimidating”:

  • Women: 30%
  • Men: 23%

Women in the Workplace Study 2016: By The Numbers

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- Sarah Ewald runs Sex & Stats: Where Numbers Come to Bang, a blog that focuses on takes a quantitative look at the various aspects of sexuality using statistics, economics and analytics. She started her blog in September 2014. Sarah is fluent in French, completed a documentary, and is a beast at bar trivia.