Each year when eager grads launch into the exciting unknowns of new careers, I inevitably receive requests for guidance on how young women can best overcome the myriad obstacles they’re likely to find in the workplace.
After years in Fortune 500 leadership and as the founder of a leadership development firm dedicated to women’s advancement to the top of the ladder, I’m disappointed that women still face a variety of career challenges that their male counterparts simply don’t. Women still receive fewer promotions, lower wages for equivalent jobs, and fewer seats in the C-suite and boardroom, and their upward mobility is still impacted by the so-called “motherhood penalty.”
