There's a glaring inequitable gender experience in America's C-suite—and it's hurting companies

Breaking down the employee experience by gender within the C-suite uncovers a concerning gap. (Credit: getty)

Whether you love your job, hate your job, or land somewhere in between, how you feel about where you work describes your employee experience. Generally, employee experience becomes more favorable, or trends upward, as employees ascend the leadership ranks. And that makes sense: Years of hard work leads to increased visibility, confidence, and capacity to effect meaningful change across an organization.

Survey findings reveal as much. Our recent study of sentiment in the workplace analyzed engagement and inclusion survey responses we ran from April 30, 2022 to April 30, 2024 from more than 1.3 million employees at all leadership levels across over 3,000 global companies. Of the respondents, over 8,300 were C-suite leaders.