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Oct 18, 2022, 00:01 ET We Are in the Midst of a "Great Breakup": Women Leaders Are Demanding More and Leaving Their Companies in Unprecedented Numbers to Get It

Today, LeanIn.Org and McKinsey & Company released the eighth annual Women in the Workplace report, the largest study on the state of women in...

Sep 27, 2021, 00:05 ET Women Are Rising to Be the Leaders Companies Need, But Work Is Going Unrecognized and Unrewarded

Today, LeanIn.Org and McKinsey & Company released the seventh annual Women in the Workplace report, the largest study on the state of women in...

May 11, 2021, 08:00 ET Hardhats and Hard Conversations--Lean In Circles Bring Tradeswomen Together to Navigate Bias and Ask for What They Deserve

Today, LeanIn.Org, North America's Building Trades Unions (NABTU), and Canada's Build Together announced Lean In Circles for Union Tradeswomen, a...

Sep 30, 2020, 00:01 ET Largest Study of Women in Corporate America Finds 1 in 4 Women Are Considering Leaving the Workforce or Downshifting Their Careers Due to Covid-19

Today, McKinsey & Company and LeanIn.Org released the annual Women in the Workplace report, the largest study of its kind. After six years of slow...

Aug 13, 2020, 08:04 ET Pay Gap Part of a Much Bigger Problem: New Report Shows the Workplace is Worse for Black Women on Almost Every Dimension

Today, on Black Women's Equal Pay Day, LeanIn.Org released a new report, The State of Black Women in Corporate America, that shows Black women are...

Mar 23, 2020, 07:03 ET Americans Overwhelmingly Support Emergency Paid Leave

As people deal with illness and quarantines, new polling from LeanIn.Org shows that three-quarters of Americans (76%) support expanding paid sick...

Nov 20, 2019, 19:19 ET La mitad de los estadounidenses percibe la discriminación como un factor importante que contribuye a la brecha salarial de las mujeres latinas

Nov 20, 2019, 05:00 ET Half of Americans See Discrimination as a Major Factor Contributing to the Pay Gap for Latinas

Today is Latina Equal Pay Day—the day that marks how far into 2019 the average Latina would have to work to be paid what the average white man made...

Oct 15, 2019, 04:21 ET The Glass Ceiling is Not the Biggest Barrier Women Face to Becoming Leaders. It's the "Broken Rung."

Today LeanIn.Org and McKinsey & Company released their annual Women in the Workplace report, the most comprehensive study of the state of women in...

Sep 12, 2019, 09:03 ET Voters Are Ready for a Woman President—We Just Don’t Know We Are

Palo Alto, CA - Today, in advance of the third presidential debate, LeanIn.Org is releasing research that shows voters are ready for a woman...

Aug 22, 2019, 10:01 ET The Pay Gap is the Tip of the Iceberg for Black Women

Today, August 22, is Black Women's Equal Pay Day, which marks how far Black women had to work into 2019 to make what white men earned in 2018 alone....

Jul 30, 2019, 19:31 ET ICYMI: Lean In's Rachel Thomas in Marie Claire: "Having Six Women Running for President Changes Everything"

In case you missed it, today, Marie Claire is out with a new op-ed by LeanIn.Org president and co-founder Rachel Thomas, which discusses what we can...

Jul 21, 2019, 11:30 ET In the wake of reports of sexual harassment, men in the U.K. are shying away from women at work

Today, LeanIn.Org and SurveyMonkey released new research to better understand employee attitudes in the United Kingdom in the wake of media coverage...

May 17, 2019, 08:29 ET Men continue to pull back from interacting with women in the wake of #MeToo

Today, LeanIn.Org and SurveyMonkey released new research showing that 60 percent of managers who are men say they are uncomfortable participating in...

Nov 01, 2018, 09:03 ET LeanIn.Org lanza la campaña #47PercentCounts (#47PorCientoCuenta) en el Día del Pago Igualitario para Latinas para resaltar la brecha salarial que ellas enfrentan

Oct 29, 2018, 09:03 ET LeanIn.Org Launches #47PercentCounts on Latina Equal Pay Day to Highlight the Pay Gap Latinas Face

November 1 is Latina Equal Pay Day, which marks how far Latinas had to work into 2018 to catch up with what white men earned in 2017 alone. On...

Oct 23, 2018, 06:02 ET Women in the Workplace 2018: Women Are Doing Their Part. Now Companies Need to do Their Part, Too.

Today, McKinsey & Company and LeanIn.Org released Women in the Workplace 2018, the largest annual report on the state of women in corporate America....

Oct 09, 2018, 09:00 ET LeanIn.Org Launches New Podcast "Tilted" Exploring the Uneven Playing Field Women Face

Today, LeanIn.Org is launching a new podcast, Tilted, which examines the gender bias that lurks in unexpected places, the impact it has on our...

Aug 01, 2018, 09:03 ET This Black Women's Equal Pay Day, New Research Shows Too Few People Know Black Women Face Such a Large Pay Gap

August 7 is Black Women's Equal Pay Day, which marks how far Black women had to work into 2018 to catch up with what white men earned in 2017 alone....

Apr 10, 2018, 06:04 ET What would you do if you were paid 20% less?

Today is Equal Pay Day, which marks how far women had to work into 2018 to catch up with what men earned in 2017 alone. Women on average are paid 20% ...

Feb 06, 2018, 10:04 ET LeanIn.Org Launches #MentorHer, a Call-to-Action for Men to Mentor Women

Today, LeanIn.Org is launching #MentorHer, a campaign that calls on men to mentor women. In the wake of the #MeToo movement, it's clearer than ever...

Apr 03, 2017, 07:00 ET LeanIn.Org Launches #20PercentCounts for Equal Pay Day 2017 to Highlight the Unfairness of the Gender Pay Gap

For Equal Pay Day (April 4), LeanIn.Org is launching #20PercentCounts, a campaign to raise awareness that women on average are paid 20 percent less...

Mar 28, 2017, 07:00 ET LeanIn.Org, NBA, WNBA, and NBPA Launch Campaign with New Videos Highlighting Critical Role Men Play in Achieving Gender Equality

LeanIn.Org, in partnership with the National Basketball Association (NBA), the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), and the National...