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    Women leaders switch jobs at record rates as they demand better from their workplaces

    Women leaders — already in short supply — are leaving their companies at rates not seen in years, a new report says. For every woman at the director level who gets promoted, two women directors leave.
    by Rachel Treisman Oct 28, 2022 5 minutes
    Women leaders are switching jobs at the highest rate in years, the 2022 edition of Women in the Workplace, an annual report from LeanIn.Org and McKinsey & Company, found. The authors are calling it "The Great Breakup."

    As American workers have reevaluated their lives and careers en masse in recent years, they've ushered in major workforce trends — from the "great resignation" to the "great reinvention" to "quiet quitting."

    Now there's one more to add to that list. In what some are calling the "Great Breakup," women leaders — already underrepresented in corporate settings — are switching jobs at the highest rate in years, significantly more than men in leadership. They're ditching their companies for ones with more opportunities, flexibility and commitment to inclusion.

    That's according to the 2022 from LeanIn.org and McKinsey & Company — the eighth annual iteration of the largest study on the state of women in corporate America. This year's study collected information from more than 330 companies, surveyed more than 40,000 workers and conducted interviews with

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