This year, Women’s History Month arrives at a pivotal time for women’s equality worldwide.
While women have never held as much collective wealth and spending power as they do today, women are still severely underrepresented in the C-Suite, and the current business landscape is endangering the future of women’s ability to pursue wealth and happiness on their own terms. This is leaving women with fewer, independent options for finding financial stability and overall quality of life.
We’ve made so much progress over the years on society embracing what women are capable of and empowering them to achieve it, and there’s still so much more we need to work at. At C200, our mission to inspire, educate, support, and advance current and future women entrepreneurs and corporate, profit-center leaders still stands – especially at this time when other organizations are closing doors on those efforts.
This moment is and will be historic for all women, not just those in business. C200 isn’t planning on going anywhere. We will keep talking about the important issues affecting working women and those who aspire to lead: loneliness, access to caregiving services, unconscious bias, and much more.
What’s more, we will continue to reiterate that, in addition to systemic change, women coming together in community to support one another is how we can bring about not only progress but also joy and connection during difficult times.
Below is a non-exhaustive list of resources and data that, together, tell an important story about the past, present, and future of women business leaders. We encourage you to use these to educate yourself and others, spark healthy discussion, and even find what viewpoints may be missing from this picture (and to share why you think so):
- Views of obstacles women face becoming business leaders in the US | Pew Research Center
- Women Joining Public Boards Report | Women Business Collaborative
- Explore the data | Tracking women’s power
- TheLi.st Research: The Cost of Loneliness
- Women entrepreneurs fuel business growth – new survey | World Economic Forum
- Women in the Workplace 2024 | McKinsey
- Resources about women of color, particularly Black women, in business
- Narrowing the gender gap in venture capital | World Economic Forum
- How diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) matter | McKinsey
- The Purchasing Power of Women: Statistics | Girlpower Marketing
Together, we can ensure conversations continue around what working women need to succeed in today’s world.