{"id":44383,"date":"2022-03-08T11:55:49","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T09:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getsmarter.com\/blog\/?p=44383"},"modified":"2025-12-08T15:23:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T13:23:57","slug":"why-the-workplace-needs-women-in-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getsmarter.com\/blog\/why-the-workplace-needs-women-in-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Workplace Needs Women in Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Female leadership matters now more than ever. Having women in central leadership roles is key to navigating the pandemic-accelerated rise in service disruption and digital transformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A global survey of nearly 8,500 companies across 61 countries found that women CEOs illustrated greater empathy, adaptability, and diversity than their male peers.1<\/sup><\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Research shows that we\u2019ve reached a tipping point in the proportion of leadership roles held by women worldwide, and there\u2019s now a window of opportunity.2<\/sup> In 2017, only 25 percent of leadership roles were held by women, and in both 2019 and 2020, the number stayed static at 29 percent. In 2021, the number grew to 31 percent. If the trend holds, women will hold more than one-third of all senior leadership roles in the next few years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This growth will immediately benefit businesses across all industries thanks to the leadership traits that women bring to the workplace. Large-scale scientific studies show that women score higher than men on measures of competence, humility and integrity.3<\/sup> \u201cWomen are naturally endowed with emotional intelligence skills,\u201d says Emma Sepp\u00e4l\u00e4, Faculty Director of the Yale School of Management Executive Education Women\u2019s Leadership Program<\/a>. \u201cOrganizations gain a tremendous amount by having women in leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The benefits of empathetic female leadership don\u2019t end there. Here are four reasons to accelerate the recruitment and development of women in senior leadership<\/a> roles:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Women build more diverse, inclusive teams and profitable companies<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Diversity has never been more important in business. It addresses social inequalities, provides new perspectives and ideas, and future-proofs business growth and profits. It also increases productivity, creativity, performance, staff retention, and collaboration.4<\/sup> Diverse teams are six times more likely to be innovative and 21 percent more likely to experience above-average profitability.5<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

These benefits are primarily due to diverse teams bringing in fresh perspectives that help overcome obstacles and manage change more effectively. \u201cHaving additional diversity of perspectives in leadership teams is critical in terms of which problems we identify, what approaches we use to understand, to analyze, and then to work through those problems,\u201d says Rodrigo Canales, Co-Convener for the Women\u2019s Leadership Program<\/a> from the Yale School of Management Executive Education, in this video<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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