Women Matter

The business and economic case for gender diversity.
Report - McKinsey Global Institute

The power of parity: Advancing women's equality in the United States
– Every state and city in the United States has the opportunity to further gender parity, which could add $4.3 trillion to the country’s economy in 2025.
Article - McKinsey Quarterly

Breaking down the gender challenge
– To make meaningful progress on gender diversity, companies must move beyond the averages and focus on the biggest pain points.
Report - McKinsey Global Institute

How advancing women’s equality can add $12 trillion to global growth
– A new McKinsey Global Institute report finds that $12 trillion could be added to global GDP by 2025 by advancing women’s... equality. The public, private, and social sectors will need to act to close gender gaps in work and society.
Report

Women in the workplace
– Women remain underrepresented across organizations—especially at senior levels of leadership—a new survey by LeanIn.Org... and McKinsey finds.
Report - McKinsey Global Institute

The power of parity: Advancing women’s equality in India
– Achieving gender equality in India would have a larger economic impact there than in any other region in the world—$700... billion of added GDP in 2025—but comprehensive change is needed.

Perspectives

Interview - McKinsey Global Institute

How India’s largest private bank fosters gender equality
Interview - McKinsey Global Institute

At the United Nations, a push for true gender equality
Interview - McKinsey Quarterly

Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg: ‘No one can have it all’
Commentary - McKinsey Quarterly

Addressing unconscious bias

Women in tech

Interview

Recruiting and retaining more women in technology organizations
– Board members of the nonprofit organization Girls Who Code reflect on why women are typically underrepresented in technology-related... jobs and how to improve the numbers.
Interview

Wanted: More women in technology
– The founder of Girls Who Code discusses the need for gender diversity in technical fields and ways companies can begin to achieve... it.

More insights

Article

Why diversity matters
Executive Briefing - McKinsey Quarterly

A CEO’s guide to gender equality
Commentary - McKinsey Quarterly

Gender equality: Taking stock of where we are
Book Excerpt - McKinsey Quarterly

It’s good to be the Queen . . . but it’s easier being the King

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Research reports

Women Matter 2014

Promoting gender diversity in the gulf
Women Matter 2013

Gender diversity in top management

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Women Matter 2012

Making the breakthrough
Women Matter 2011

Unlocking the full potential of women at work
Women Matter 2010

Women at the top of corporations

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Women Matter 2009

Women leaders in and after the crisis

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Women Matter 2008

Female leadership

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Women Matter 2007

Gender diversity, a corporate performance driver

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