Every year I look forward to reading the McKinsey/Lean In.org “Women in the Workplace” study; it’s become the gold standard, annual baseline report on trends driving the current state of our nation’s work/life culture. Therefore, I was honored to join Marianne Cooper, senior research scholar at VMware Women’s Leadership Innovation Lab at Stanford University and the lead researcher for Sheryl Sandberg’s New York Times bestselling Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead, on a podcast featuring a wide-ranging discussion on the 2022 study’s findings.

The study itself is eye-opening and is not just an interesting ready for women only.  The benchmarking graphics provided at the end of the report are important for every CEO and/or HR professional interested in analyzing his or her own company’s practices and how they might directly or inadvertently impact current or future female employees.