Richard and Sarah were tasked with creating a program to increase women's leadership within their organization. I don't think there are many women in our industry, Richard said at their first meeting, I've met one administrator who was a woman. To his surprise. An internal report showed over half the employees were women. However, while there were many women in the organization, they almost all occupied secretarial and administrative positions with many of them in human resources. There were no female engineers and only a handful of managers.

None of the board was female. He and Sarah decided to look into this further and found it to be a larger trend across many businesses.