7/4/2023 0 Comments Lean in women work![]() ![]() Women who spend time as “the Only” are one-and-a-half times more likely to think about leaving their jobs than women who work with other women. Sign up: Click here to subscribe to the Broadsheet, Fortune’s daily newsletter on the world’s most powerful women.īeing the only one-on a team, in the C-suite, or on a project-has consequences. Lean In didn’t include gender in that set of survey questions, so it did not provide statistics for how often these employees are the only women of color or LGBT woman. This was the first time in its four years of conducting the survey that Lean In has asked this question, identifying the group of women it’s dubbed “the Onlys.”įorty-five percent of women of color surveyed reported being the only person of their race in work situations, and 76% of LGBT women reported being the only one of their sexuality. ![]() “We’re inclined to say, ‘We’ve got a woman here at the table, so we must be good,’ not realizing there’s a cost associated with that for the woman sitting there trying to represent an entire 50% of the population,” said Alexis Krivkovich, a partner at McKinsey who led the report with Lean In. The data comes from a survey of 279 companies, with 64,000 employees participating. That statistic doubles for women in senior-level positions, 40% of whom report being the lone woman. ![]() One in five women surveyed by Lean In.org and McKinsey & Company for their fourth annual study of women at work told the organization that they are often find themselves in meetings and other workplace situations where they are the only woman. ![]()
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