Research published by the Hay Group in 2016, revealed that women surpass males in 11 of 12 major emotional intelligence characteristics; and research published by HBR in 2015, showed that, CEOs who score highly for traits like compassion and integrity can earn a 9.35% return on assets over two years.

— Forbes, Why Everyone Wins With More Women In Leadership, 2023

Nielsen predicts that by 2028, women will own 75% of the discretionary (US) spending.

—Nielsen, Wise up to Women, 2020

In 2009, HBR wrote that women accounted for about $20 trillion in annual consumer expenditure, making them a more substantial potential market expansion than both China and India put together. A decade later, women's spending power is reportedly around $31 trillion.

— Forbes, Why Everyone Wins With More Women In Leadership, 2023

The proportion of women in senior management roles globally grew to 32% in 2022—the highest number ever recorded.

— Grant Thorton, Women in business

“Women CEOs run 10.4% of Fortune 500 companies. A quarter of the 52 leaders became CEO in the last year.”

— The 69th Annual Fortune 500 Ranking, 2023

“Women purpose driven leaders are calculated-risk takers and consider people just as important, if not more important than profit when making business decisions.”

— InnovateHERs: Why Purpose-Driven Entrepreneurial Women Rise to the Top, Barbara Kurshan

“When women are in charge, companies achieve diversity targets sooner, provide higher sales growth, and improve earnings-per-share.”

— Credit Suisse, The CS Gender 3000: The Reward for Change, 2016

“When looking at empathy in purpose-driven leaders, we discovered that women scored an average of 13% higher than men in this skill.”

— InnovateHERs: Why Purpose-Driven Entrepreneurial Women Rise to the Top, Barbara Kurshan

“Women’s leadership style tends to benefit a broader range of stakeholders within and outside companies (customers, suppliers, and community).

— S+P Global. Women CEOs: Leadership for a Diverse Future, 2022

“Women CEOs, since the outbreak of the pandemic, steadily increased their use of words corresponding to leadership styles built around diversity, empathy, adaptability, and transformation, according to our language analysis of 6,831 corporate leaders of S&P Global Broad Market Index..”

— S+P Global. Women CEOs: Leadership for a Diverse Future, 2022

“Currently, women are trained to reach leadership positions the way men reach leadership positions—through competition for power. However, as more employees and organizations are shifting toward more purpose-driven, people-centered business models (thanks to COVID), I believe the construct of leadership will change. Instead of fighting for power, leaders will advocate for purpose – which is where women excel. Instead of the future leaders being trained to emulate men, they will be trained to emulate women.”

— Ashley Levesque, VP of Marketing, Banzai

At a time when organizations face dire talent shortages, retaining and promoting women leaders is perhaps the best and most urgent solution for securing one’s entire workforce.

—HBR, When Women Leaders Leave, the Losses Multiply, 2022

Women leaders have more engaged teams, drive better job performance, and save their organization millions of dollars as a result.

—HBR, When Women Leaders Leave, the Losses Multiply, 2022

With male leaders in our population, 18% of their followers are actively disengaged compared to 11% of the followers of female leaders. Based on Gallup research, a disengaged employee costs their organization $3400 for every $10,000 of salary in lost productivity.

—HBR, 2020

A recent McKinsey study of 65,000 employees, women managers were scored higher by their employees as taking people-centered actions that helped them through the pandemic: providing emotional support (12% more), checking in on overall well-being (7% more), and taking action to help manage burnout (5% more).

—McKinsey, Women in the Workplace, 2021

Female startup founders with all-female teams received $6.9 billion in venture funding in 2021, compared to $3.3 billion in 2020. And mixed-gender teams with at least one female founder received $47 billion in VC funding in 2021, up from $19 billion in 2020.

—PitchBook, All In Report, 2021

Boston Consulting Group surveyed 1,700 companies and found that companies with above-average total diversity had 19% higher innovation revenues on average.

—How Diverse Leadership Teams Boost Innovation, 2018