Achieving critical mass (or one-third) of women in leadership is essential to building “a stronger economy, better institutions and a more representative democracy,” write the authors of Benchmarking Women’s Leadership, published by The White House Project, a New York Citybased nonprofit that aims to advance women’s leadership roles in communities and sectors.
The group’s research, based on data collected from previously published sources and industry experts, found that women hold an average of only 18 percent of leadership positions in 10 industry sectors, ranging from a low of 11 percent in the military to a high of 23 percent in academia.
Although women “are trained, educated, in the pipeline and prepared to lead, women in generaland women of color in particularare vastly underrepresented,” states the study.
