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From the ‘great break up’ to the ‘great make up’

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For women in the workplace, it’s becoming clear that the post-pandemic era offers good news and bad news. After suffering disproportionately high job losses at the height of Covid-19, data from the USA’s National Women’s Law Center shows that female employment is on the rise - and the UK’s Office for National Statistics tells a similar story.

Yet according to Lean In and McKinsey’s recent Women in the Workplace report, we’re in the midst of what its writers call a ‘great breakup’ - a phenomenon that’s causing female leaders to leave their jobs at the highest rate ever witnessed.

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