Lean Out : Centerpoint Media : 9780993984044 : 0993984045 : 08 Mar 2016 : Why Women Still Fall off the Corporate Ladder Despite all the talk of diversity and empowerment, women are still falling off corporate ladders like never before. Although women have been graduating in equal numbers to men for almost 40 years, they remain absent in the highest levels in public and private corporations. While individual women go about seeking work-life balance, board members and executives scratch their chins wondering why things are not changing for women. What many leaders do not know Academics have been studying these issues for years and know exactly why women are not advancing and what's really holding them back. They know that woman face significant barriers and biases, they know that many expensive diversity reports are collecting dust on shelves and they can't understand why their data remains hidden. This book is a synthesis of this research, written in plain language. It not only desc