Women in the Workplace 2024: The 10th Anniversary Report (McKinsey & Company)

Summary

• In 2024 the study collected information from 281 participating organizations employing over 10 million people and surveyed more than 15,000 employees.p.2
• Women make up 29% of C-suite positions in 2024, compared to 17% in 2015.p.5
• For every 100 men promoted to manager in 2018, 79 women were promoted, and this year just 81 were.p.8
• At the current pace of progress, it will take 22 years to reach parity for white women and 48 years for women of color.p.11
• Only 27% of companies have all five core practices for de-biasing hiring and performance reviews in place.p.14
• In 2024, 96% of companies offered maternity leave and 93% offered paternity leave.p.25
• Senior-level women with partners are over 4x more likely than men to do more housework: 35% of women say they take on most or all household responsibilities, compared to 8% of men.p.39

Key insights

1. Women hold 59% of bachelor's degrees and represent 51% of the population, yet make up only 48% of entry-level employees.p.8
2. Women's progress in senior leadership is more fragile than it appears, driven largely by a decrease in line roles.p.10
3. Only 1 in 3 companies have a mechanism for surfacing biased evaluations during performance reviews, and just 1 in 10 remove identifying candidate information from résumés.p.14
4. Half of companies now provide emergency backup childcare services, up from 1 in 3 in 2016.p.25
5. Almost 8 in 10 employees say flexibility has improved over the last decade.p.26
6. Younger women are twice as likely as older women to say their gender will make it harder for them to advance.p.31