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Women near a third of C-suite roles. The management layer didn't move.
The 2024 Women in the Workplace report — tenth edition, 10 million-plus employee records — documents C-suite progress stuck above a frozen middle.
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The 2 percent problem: women founders and venture funding
Companies founded solely by women have taken around 2 percent of U.S. venture dollars for a decade, per PitchBook data — the number the industry reports on itself.
Careers
What pay-transparency laws changed in their first five years
Salary-range mandates now cover roughly a quarter of US workers, and the early research associates them with small average pay shifts and simpler, flatter pay structures.
Leadership
The first promotion to manager, not the ceiling, decides who reaches CEO
New pipeline data shows where women leave the leadership track, and why that early gap outlasts a decade of promotions.
Horoscope
Why Mercury retrograde became astrology's favorite scapegoat
The phrase describes an optical illusion, not a disruption in the solar system. Here's the cultural history of how it became shorthand for a bad day, traced through named astrologers, historians, and one blunt astrophysicist.
Entrepreneurship
Women-owned businesses closed the small-loan gap. Venture funding didn't.
Small-business lending data from 2024 and venture funding data from 2025 show the financing gap for women entrepreneurs closing on one track and staying concentrated on the other.
Community
Peer support groups close part of the sponsorship gap for women, data shows
Entry-level women are sponsored at lower rates than men, and Lean In's own data on peer circles shows a real but unverified association with faster promotions and raises.