SuiteWorld19 to Offer Dedicated Track to Promote Women in Leadership

Posted by Emily Houghton, Industry Marketing Lead
The results are in: women bring growth and positive change to organizations across all industries and sizes. For many companies and their leaders, this isn’t groundbreaking news. For others, however, it challenges corporate cultures, hiring practices and even hidden bias within entire industries.
Increasing rates of female education and labor force participation leave many of us questioning why women held less than a quarter of senior roles globally in 2018. Why are women often overlooked or held back? Is it a lack of the appropriate network? Lower access to funding? Less confidence in negotiation or self-promotion? Or simply a gender bias that is too deeply rooted to combat?