{"id":3415,"date":"2018-02-25T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2018-02-25T10:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=3415"},"modified":"2018-03-02T01:05:58","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T01:05:58","slug":"people-of-all-ages-say-there-arent-enough-women-in-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/people-of-all-ages-say-there-arent-enough-women-in-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"People of All Ages Say There Aren&#8217;t Enough Women in Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If there&#8217;s one statistic that paints a picture of the lack of women in leadership positions, consider this: the\u00a0percentage of women sitting on the boards of Fortune 500 companies has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewsocialtrends.org\/2017\/03\/17\/the-data-on-women-leaders\/\">more than doubled<\/a> since 1995, but still hovers at only 20%.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, people of all ages say there aren&#8217;t enough women in leadership, according to the latest reading of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/culture\/all\/all-departments\/142-do-you-think-there-are-enough-females-in-leadership-positions-at-your-company\">ongoing query<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/\">Comparably<\/a>. More than 5,000 workers participated in the study.<\/p>\n<p><b>No major difference across the age spectrum<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Workers between ages 18 and 55 showed very little variation in their responses: anywhere from 59% to 62% said they feel there are enough women in leadership (meaning 38% to 41% say there aren&#8217;t enough women in leadership).<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3416 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/ages.jpg\" alt=\"ages\" width=\"380\" height=\"122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/ages-300x96.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/ages.jpg 380w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 380px) 85vw, 380px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Women feel there&#8217;s more of a problem<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Fifty-eight percent of women and 63% of men say there are enough women in leadership positions (meaning 42% of women and 37% of men say there aren&#8217;t enough women in leadership positions).<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3419 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/02\/sizx-1.jpg\" alt=\"sizx\" width=\"479\" height=\"54\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/02\/sizx-1-300x34.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/02\/sizx-1.jpg 479w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 479px) 85vw, 479px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Asians\/Pacific Islanders most likely to say there aren\u2019t enough women in leadership<\/b><\/p>\n<p>49% of Asians\/Pacific Islanders say there are enough women in leadership, the lowest of any ethnic group.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3420 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/02\/cho-3.jpg\" alt=\"cho\" width=\"497\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/02\/cho-3-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/02\/cho-3.jpg 497w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 497px) 85vw, 497px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The latest reading of the ongoing query is as of Feb. 25.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there&#8217;s one statistic that paints a picture of the lack of women in leadership positions, consider this: the\u00a0percentage of women sitting on the boards of Fortune 500 companies has more than doubled since 1995, but still hovers at only 20%. Indeed, people of all ages say there aren&#8217;t enough women in leadership, according to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/people-of-all-ages-say-there-arent-enough-women-in-leadership\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read full-story <i class=\"cm cm-right-chevron\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3415"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3423,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415\/revisions\/3423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}