Noticeable progress towards gender equality has been made. There are more women in the C-Suite – 44% of companies studied by McKinsey in its recent report, “Women in the Workplace” have three or more women in their C-suite, up from 29% five years ago. Yes it is slow, but it is moving in the right direction and, in the words of McKinsey, “there are bright spots on the horizon”.
Will the impact of Covid 19 accelerate us towards greater gender diversity, or set the cause back? That the future is unclear is an understatement, but there are factors that will likely accelerate gender diversity – and also those that will inhibit it.