Fix the ‘Broken Rung’ on the Management Track Ladder: Conference Speakers

March 4, 2020 by Allison Bell

About 48% of the people who start working at big companies are women, but only 38% of those companies’ lowest-level managers are women.

Elixabete Larrea, a partner at McKinsey & Co., described the problems that women have with getting the lowest-level management jobs as a “broken rung” on the ladder of opportunity.

“There’s a gap here we need to fill,” Larrea said.

One way is to give women more training, and more opportunities to stand out, and another is to bring the women to the attentional of potential internal “sponsors,” Larrea said.

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Originally Posted at ThinkAdvisor on March 2, 2020 by Allison Bell.